Sentence examples for landmark prosecution from inspiring English sources

His sentencing was delayed as investigators moved steadily and secretly toward what has become a landmark prosecution.

Hours after the supermarket trumpeted its plans to cut packaging by moving breakfast cereals from boxes into bags, a council announced it was launching a landmark prosecution against the company for its use of excessive meat wrapping.

Sue Hemming, head of special crime and counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "This was a landmark prosecution that shows we will do everything in our power to ensure that international borders are no barrier to terrorists in the UK being brought to justice for murder committed anywhere in the world.

The girl's father, who is accused of taking her for the operation, is also being tried in a landmark prosecution.

Sardar's conviction in a UK court for his role in the Iraq insurgency was hailed a "landmark prosecution" on Thursday.

His conviction in a UK court for his role in the insurgency in Iraq is a "landmark prosecution", the CPS says.

And just as it did in the investigation of Mr. Rajaratnam and in the landmark 1980s prosecutions of the financial giants of that era, Michael R. Milken and Ivan F. Boesky, the government is pursuing lower-level employees and then seeking their cooperation in the hopes of building a case against the boss.

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

The authorities decided against prosecution – a landmark decision that paved the way for Lady Chatterley's Lover the following year.

Although it did not mount a landmark case akin to the prosecution of Microsoft, there was plenty of activity on Mr Bush's watch.

The landmark case is the first successful prosecution since forced marriage was criminalised under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, which came into force last June.