Sentence examples for first prosecution for from inspiring English sources

The producers behind it were convicted in 2013 in the first prosecution for film tax-relief fraud.

In February Saunders had to face the wrath of the medical profession who heavily criticised her decision to bring the first prosecution for FGM against a doctor.

There has yet to be a criminal conviction in this country but the first prosecution for the practice is currently in the courts.

In November, Alison Saunders, the new Director of Public Prosecutions, suggested she expected the first prosecution for FGM to happen in the UK fairly soon.

He and his trainee-teacher accomplice were convicted in the first prosecution for film tax relief fraud – and that, at least, will earn the two hapless producers their own little niche in British cinema history.

Austria's financial watchdog moved in, and Mr Kulterer and fellow board members faced their first prosecution, for balance-sheet fraud.Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB), a publicly owned German bank, was keen to buy an Austrian bank and lit on HAA.

We have seen the first prosecutions for online abuse.

While FGM has been illegal in England since 1985, the first prosecutions for the crime did not take place until this year, the news outlet reported.

Kevin Marino, Mr. Aleynikov's lawyer, plans to challenge the latest prosecution as a violation of the protection afforded defendants against double jeopardy, which prohibits a second prosecution for the same offense.

In only the country's second prosecution for slavery – and the first by a new court established alongside an anti-slavery law passed last year – two slave-owners were sentenced to five years in prison, with one year to be served and four years suspended.

But the men complained that a second prosecution for roughly the same crimes ran afoul of the Constitution's double jeopardy clause.