Sentence examples for in joint enterprise from inspiring English sources

The supreme court ruled that the evidential bar for guilt had been set too low in joint enterprise cases.

Prosecutors, judges and jurors will now have to take a different approach when dealing with defendants accused of being involved in joint enterprise crimes.

Their hopes had been bolstered by a supreme court victory in February, which declared that judges had been misinterpreting the "foresight principle" in joint enterprise cases for 30 years.

It was the prosecution's case that Taylor delivered the "piledriver" punch and his co-defendant, Donovan, who was extradited after fleeing to Germany for a month, had acted in joint enterprise.

The supreme court declared on Thursday that a key test imposed by judges in assessing guilt in joint enterprise cases – where the accused acts in conjunction with the killer but does not strike the blow that causes death – had been incorrectly applied.

They were responsible, in joint enterprise, for saving British detective fiction from the position, after the era of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers, in which its popularity with readers was matched only by its unpopularity with most serious literary critics.

Almost 500 people are thought to have been convicted of murder between 2005 and 2013 as secondary parties in joint-enterprise cases.

Further south, the local government minister, David Miliband, will officially open a similar outpost in Chatham in a joint enterprise between Greenwich, Kent and Canterbury Christ Church Universities.

We hope that this small community of two, which in this study has participated in collaboration, joint enterprise, and shared endeavour, contributes to the voices of those centres.

In judgment, District Judge Michael Snow said that the 10 were involved in a joint enterprise and became responsible for the actions of others in the store by their presence.

The idea was to involve everyone - laity and priests - in the joint enterprise of evangelisation.