Sentence examples for examples of offence from inspiring English sources

The truth is, though, that aside from extreme examples of offence - recently Frankie Boyle's joke that Jordan or her ex husband Peter Andre would eventually lose their custody battle and have to take care of her 8-year-old disabled son – "funny" is very subjective.

However, the courts were explicitly intended to be "speedy" and were sometimes encouraged by higher authority to make an example of certain offences, and in practice the leniency of the court and the ability of the accused to defend himself varied widely.

There are many other examples in Turkey of the weapons of offence and insult being used to silence dissent.

Causing death by careless driving is perhaps an example of a serious offence with terrible if different consequences for the victim and defendant that, although it led to a prison sentence, might not make a return to the Commons impossible.

Increases in violence without injury and sexual offences are good examples of the improved confidence the public have to come forward," he said.

Demographics, offence related disease, and type of offence stratified for recidivism.

The records contain information on type of offence(s) committed in the past (offences as formulated in youth criminal law), and age at first offence.

1972: In another example of Savile's offences listed by police, he is recorded as groping a 12-year-old boy and his two female friends who were attending a recording of Top of the Pops.

Much more was to follow, laws that created hundreds of new offences, many of them ludicrous examples of pettifogging control.

For each of these extreme examples of soccer superstition, there are a thousand minor offences to be taken into consideration.

The most notable example was the offence of false accounting, which was downgraded and had its statute of limitations shortened early in the present parliament.Even so, two of Mr Berlusconi's closest friends have fallen foul of the law.