Sentence examples for launch a prosecution from inspiring English sources

"The acknowledgement that there was enough evidence to launch a prosecution a long time ago, but it hasn't happened.

"I am not easily shocked, but I'm shocked at the catalogue of mistakes and errors and failings to launch a prosecution.

The CPS said that there was therefore insufficient evidence to launch a prosecution.

Peter Saunders, founder of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said: "I am not easily shocked, but I'm shocked at the catalogue of mistakes and errors and failings to launch a prosecution.

And because of my work there holding the government to account – I was prosecuted for contempt by the then Attorney General who launched a prosecution against me in what became the landmark case of Home Office v Harman.

In 2011, the government body Natural England launched a prosecution of the estate, citing "illegal works" on the moor.

Durham constabulary launched a prosecution against David Dinsmore after the Sun published the photograph of the victim, taken from her Facebook page, following Johnson's arrest last year.

Silcott's conviction was later quashed: it must have been a bitter irony for her when, as DPP, she launched a prosecution against officers alleged to have conspired to pervert the course of justice in the case.

To launch such a prosecution requires only the issuing of a charge with a magistrates' court (which is an administrative act, not one dependent on meeting any evidential burden).

They said they are now hoping to launch a private prosecution.

Firstly, it is possible that the police could launch a corporate prosecution.