Sentence examples for broad offence from inspiring English sources

"The minister is alluding to potentially a very broad offence of 'facilitating' reidentification.

"At the same time it must be fair, accurate, impartial and avoid giving broad offence.

Under this very broad offence the disclosure need not have caused harm to trigger investigation.

According to University of Sydney Law School associate professor David Rolph this broad offence criminalises menacing, harassing, or causing offence using mobile phones, Facebook, Twitter etc. "In order for there to be prosecutions for this offence, people have to report the incident to the police.

Recent legislative hyperactivity has left us with a statute book bursting with umpteen dangerously broad offences which, among other things, have had a chilling impact on our right to free speech.

But less for this, more for the broader offence of simply being the band in the first place.

"This is a threatening email and no doubt is a threat that will be repeated, because that's how broad this new offence is.

Section 7 creates the "broad and innovatory offence" of the failure of commercial organisations to prevent bribery on their behalf.

Changing the system so that benefits are denied to those convicted of a very broad spectrum of offences relating to the riots would represent a radical departure from the universalist assumptions underpinning the welfare state.

Crime statistics are complex numbers and their generation is the result of a range of policing practices, the public's willingness to report a broad range of offences, and a plethora of legal categories and political and policy strategies.

Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda, declared last week that he will sign into law a anti-gay legislation, passed by parliament in December, that imposes life sentences for a broad range of offences including touching in public.