Sentence examples for law offence from inspiring English sources

The offence of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body is a 'common law' offence: it is not a crime created and governed by statute.

Codify the common law offence of misconduct in public office and make it a criminal offence.

Icac has recommended prosecution for misconduct in office in the past but has so far had to rely on the common law offence.

Their rights to adopt children were also recognised and 1998 saw the abolition of sodomy as a common law offence "inconsistent with the constitution".

They charged her with three counts of the ancient common law offence of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office.

The appeal court decided that he had "misdirected" the jury on a key aspect of the ancient common law offence of misconduct in a public office.

Abolishes the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel.

Other recent cases have been charged under common law offences such as false imprisonment.

Any cut through the full thickness of the skin without medical necessity and without the consent of the individual being cut is a wounding in criminal law (Offences Against the Person Act 1861).

The government has tabled an amendment to its criminal justice and immigration bill scrapping the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel which is expected to be debated by the House of Lords in the next few days.

The court heard that Janie Banister, the Liverpudlian girlfriend and accomplice of Lin Muyong, 31, who was convicted of immigration law offences, called the coastguard to report that a terrible disaster was unfolding.