Sentence examples for a specific offence from inspiring English sources

Unison wants a law that makes assaulting a public sector worker a specific offence.

Under the 2005 Gambling Act, there is a specific offence relating to cheating at gambling.

Michael Fuller, the chief inspector of the CPS, said the Law Commission had been asked to consider whether there should be a specific offence of disability hate crime.

The proposed legislation makes encouraging "le binge drinking" – the English term is most often used – a specific offence and is aimed at combatting alcoholism among the young.

The Home Office minister Baroness Scotland will launch a consultation on proposals to introduce a specific offence of 'forcing someone to marry'.

Neave acknowledged that the state government, as well as some frontline family violence workers and academics, had called for changes to criminal law to make domestic and family violence a specific offence.

Unless it is so grossly obscene that it is caught by the Obscene Publications Act, and a jury finds the material is such as to deprave and corrupt anyone seeing it, there isn't any specific offence to punish such an act.

Investigations by these units, such as that into the 2002 Kikambala Bombings, stretch on for years, swiftly become completely diffused from any specific offence and are characterized by a failure to catch any offenders and a string of botched prosecutions.

Officials of the Socialist and Communist parties are usually beaten on arrival, without having committed any specific offence.

Prince Andrew and Cilla Black would be sentenced to a lengthy period of community service under a law decreeing that people can be punished just for who they are rather than for any specific offence.

The government should bring forward a legal duty to report child abuse, a new specific offence of child exploitation, and new child abduction warning notices.