Sentence examples for a single offence from inspiring English sources

His son is charged with a single offence of aiding or abetting the alleged used of forged materials.

The government has so far resisted extending the magistracy's sentencing powers from a maximum of six months to 12 months for a single offence.

Magistrates' powers should be increased so that they can sentence convicted defendants to up to one year in prison for a single offence, a House of Commons committee has recommended.

The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has suggested that magistrates might be given greater sentencing powers, increasing the maximum term they might be able to impose from six to 12 months for a single offence.

Using a scale devised under Labour's 2003 Criminal Justice Act it ranges from a 15 year starting point for serial rapists to five years for a single offence of rape by a single offender.

Under the current system, criminal cases are tried either in magistrates' courts which can hand down sentences of up to six months for a single offence, and which handle the vast majority of criminal cases or before a jury in a Crown Court.

BAE was brought to court for the single offence after agreeing a plea bargain with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to settle years of investigations.

Further, it is far from obvious that the way forward at this point is simply to add a few additional offences to the initial 'list' consisting of the single offence of bribery.

If magistrates could hand down sentences of up to 12 months for single offences (at present, six months is the maximum) it would save money.The crown courts could also be more efficient.

In spite of this, the government's 40-page plan for preventing and dealing with hate crime, released in July of 2016, didn't contain a single reference to offences committed against Sikhs.

The draft bill, announced by the home secretary, Theresa May, at the Conservative party conference in September, pulls together into a single act the offences used to prosecute slave drivers.