Sentence examples for criminal claim from inspiring English sources

But Clarín also appeared to overreach itself, filing a criminal claim against pro-government media and journalists for incitement to violence, only to withdraw it this week amid a storm of protest.The Supreme Court this week ordered the lower courts to rule on the media law's constitutionality within a "reasonable" time.

Transocean agreed this month to settle civil and criminal claims with the federal government and pay $1.4 billion in penalties.

That legal limit covers her criminal claims – and so, now that she is 28, she is barred.

Until then, American officials had shown a reluctance to pursue criminal claims because, it was said, of the risk such action might pose to a bank's stability.

There have been 157 criminal claims filed against General Pinochet by human rights groups, families of those who disappeared and torture victims.

The officers' lawyer, John Downes of Slater and Gordon, said: "We welcome the news that officers from Scotland Yard are assessing the criminal claims against the IPCC.

DEMANDS For UBS in Tax Evasion Case The Justice Department is pressuring UBS for the names of 52,000 Americans as part of criminal claims against the Swiss banking giant.

The driller whose floating Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew out in 2010, causing a massive oil spill, has agreed to settle civil and criminal claims with the federal government for $1.4 billion, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

It also re-stated on Tuesday its hope that it can settle civil and criminal claims over the Gulf of Mexico oil platform disaster.

Conservative MP for Reading, Rob Wilson - who has written to BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten about the matter - called for the BBC probe to be "much wider" than one into criminal claims.

The accord also does not cover potential criminal claims or claims against individuals.