Sentence examples for not offences from inspiring English sources

There have been a number of disturbing instances recently of such leniency, but at the moment they are not offences that can be referred.

Under the Extradition Act, cases can be dismissed if "offences specified in the [arrest] warrant are not offences under the meaning of the [act]," said the official.

After Monday's hearing, Gildo's solicitor, Gareth Peirce, said his case had exposed a number of "contradictions" – not least that the matters on which he was charged were not offences in Sweden, and that the UK government had expressed support for the Syrian opposition.

It only takes retrospective action against unseen red card offences and not offences that might have earned only a booking.

"The focus is very much on harm [to users], not offence.

But usually it's boredom, not offence, that makes my feet itch.

But by the same token, I would not want offences to be missed".

But the event that triggered it, the brawl, was a public order offence, not an organised crime offence.

"It's not an offence against the president, it is an offence against the country, against the whole of the Latin American region," he said before taking off.

For reasons best known to themselves, the officials who clocked the offence, which was as transparent as could be, decided it was not an offence at all.

35 Lessons in not taking offence.