Sentence examples for dealing offences from inspiring English sources

A retired British businessman who has been sentenced to 33 months in an American prison for arms dealing offences faces a wait of months before learning when he can return to serve his sentence in Britain.

A plea bargain deal struck by Boesky in 1986 saw him admit insider dealing offences in the US and led to devastating evidence emerging which helped secure the conviction of star junk bonds pioneer Michael Milken.

Prison terms for all federal drug dealing offences could be cut under a sweeping sentencing review expected to be announced on Thursday that may go much further than the tentative steps toward ending America's "war on drugs", begun this week by attorney general Eric Holder.

The report said: "Many of the staff interviewed for this inspection felt that the emphasis from senior and middle local managers was still more focused on dealing with offences such as burglary and vehicle crime, rather than child sexual exploitation".

They argued that dealing with offences in a professional manner could help bring long-term solutions and prevent recurrence of similar offences.

Officials are worried, he says, about using courts to handle offences now dealt with by laojiao because more sensitive cases would come to light.

However, they said they would have preferred an approach to discipline with the head appropriately investigating reported offences first, then dealing with the offences in a professional way, instead of making discipline seem like a personal attack on workers.

The Commons home affairs select committee says it is alarming that some police officers using cautions and warnings to deal with offences involving violence, sexual offending and domestic abuse in order to save time.

The courts were intended only to deal with offences committed by Republican or Loyalist paramilitaries but in 2005 they heard the case of Abbas Boutrab, a suspected terrorist who was jailed for six years for downloading information on how to bomb a passenger jet.

"This raises serious questions about the adequacy of the criminal justice system to deal with offences that occur online and we are calling for an urgent review of laws and practices".

In 2006, Kenya enacted the Sexual Offences Act to provide a legal framework for dealing with sexual offences and gender-based violence.