Sentence examples for criminal burden from inspiring English sources

If we want to shift the criminal burden from vulnerable women, both trafficked and local, to men, we have to criminalise the punters.

He said: "The rules established within the Liberal Democrats, set many years ago, sets the criminal burden of proof in these cases.

The current criminal burden of proof used by the party is likely to be changed to make it easy to take disciplinary action.

It was done entirely independently and … he said there wasn't in his view enough evidence to clear the threshold of what is in effect the criminal burden of proof in order for him to recommend action.

During a conference call last week, when asked about his agency's burden of proof, Pound said, "We're not dealing here with criminal offenses, and there has never been a criminal burden of proof".

This review has now been completed by a senior barrister who has recommended that we make changes to the current criminal burden of proof and these changes will now be taken forward".

As Steven Bauer of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, a law firm, points out, jurors must presume that a patent is valid unless proven otherwise, a task that requires a near-criminal burden of proof.

Unusually for a criminal proceeding, the burden of proof is on the defendant: the Met will have to demonstrate that it took all "reasonably practicable" steps to prevent the death of Mr de Menezes.Falling foul of the law can be expensive: Balfour Beatty, for example, was fined £10m ($18m), reduced on appeal this month to £7.5m.

The act of sex-for-money remains illegal, but anti-trafficking laws shift the criminal and moral burden.

I think it would be a criminal act to burden one family with 2 children with a severe muscular disorder if we have the technology to prevent this.

Yet lawyers have long argued that these cases were more winnable as civil rather than as criminal cases, where the burden of proof is much greater.