The word "malpractices" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in a legal or financial context, and describes the practice of professional misconduct or negligence. For example: "The law firm was found guilty of malpractices and had to pay a hefty fine."
And, as the large-scale malpractices of police undercover units have driven home in the past couple of years, their successors are still at it today.
But whoever was responsible, the undoubted malpractices only add another element to the tragedy.
Now the ruling party—and in particular the finance minister is being accused of sharing responsibility for malpractices at India's largest savings scheme, which has hurt 20m investors.In this section Golkar plots its comeback One country, how many systems?
There are no public defenders of the assorted malpractices that make a mockery of many anti-poverty programmes.
But how many people know that they are named after Samuel Plimsoll, an Englishman whose tireless campaigning ended Victorian shipping malpractices and saved thousands of sailors' lives?In her scholarly biography, Nicolette Jones lifts the lid on the life of an extraordinary man from an ordinary background.
On the New York Stock Exchange, it was an investigation in 2003 into the rewards paid to its then chairman, Richard Grasso, that began to question the fat margins charged by specialist market-makers.Outsiders can play a useful role in exposing malpractices that have gone on for years, unquestioned by financial watchdogs.
A Hungarian midwife known for promoting home births has lost an appeal against her two-year prison sentence for malpractice.
It can hardly be argued that this case is unexceptional, unless it is to be taken that there is a lot of this kind of malpractice about.
But there is abundant prima facie evidence of systemic malpractice that hardly requires more than a moment's reflection, and the IPCC has now acknowledged that the PCA did not investigate the complaints about the fabricated evidence against the miners.
Two killers would still be walking the streets, and the exposure of large-scale malpractice in the police force may never have happened.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said on Friday: "Sixteen allegations of electoral malpractice are being assessed by the Met".
