Sentence examples for first ever prosecution from inspiring English sources

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According to the paper, police hope the case could result in a landmark first ever prosecution for FGM in the UK.

This is the first ever prosecution, in Australia, of a Child Sex Offender for an offense committed in Viet Nam.

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She is on the United States Comptroller General's Advisory Board at the Government Accountability Office, and on the Advisory Boards of the Beyond Diversity (BD Foundationn in India and the The Uncondemned, a documentary detailing the first-ever prosecution of rape as a war crime, which premiered at the United Nations in October 2016.

Lord Harris, chairman of the National Trading Standards Board, said: "This is a landmark case, as we believe it may be the first ever successful prosecution of someone involved in the 'Microsoft scam' in the UK".

In fact, the only people on trial are Magnitsky's employer and Magnitsky himself, now the subject of Russia's first ever posthumous prosecution".

That same week, two slave owners were each sentenced to five years in prison and were ordered to pay compensation to their victims, in the country's second-ever slavery prosecution.

But the doctor who allegedly cut the girls is now at the center of the first-ever criminal prosecution under a 20-year-old federal law banning female genital mutilation (FGM) in America.

Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, announced the first ever charge relating to FGM earlier this year but the case has yet to go through the courts.

If Khadr's trial had gone forward, it would have been the first war crimes prosecution of a child soldier since World War II, and the first ever in U.S. history.

The verdict was issued in the UN court's first ever retrial, which was ordered after appeals judges overturned the 2008 acquittals of Mr Haradinaj because of alleged serious intimidation of prosecution witnesses.

As in first ever.

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