Sentence examples for offence trials from inspiring English sources

The unofficial industrial action, if it does spread around the country, could see the criminal justice system effectively cease to function – although "striking" lawyers are likely to put safeguards in place to ensure their action does not disrupt the most sensitive cases, including sex offence trials.

During a marshalling placement last summer, she watched a complicated sexual offences trial play out at Oxford Crown Court.

The nature of the offence means trials are often a case of one person's word against another's.

Pre-trial detention is enforced when a youngster is suspect of an offence, awaiting trial and if detention is thought to be necessary for the protection of others or the child itself.

In the Netherlands, criminal legislation for youths applies to persons aged 12 to 18. Pre-trial detention is enforced when a youngster is suspect of an offence, awaiting trial, and if detention is thought to be necessary for the protection of others or the adolescent itself.

Most people executed are sentenced to death for drug offences, with trials widely condemned as unfair.

He is serving 15 years in prison after being convicted of both offences at trials widely accused of being rigged.

Mostafa has twice been cleared of terrorism offences at trial in the UK.

As Boulton and Park, two cross-dressers charged with "conspiring and inciting others to commit unnatural offences", awaited trial in 1870-71, the Society for the Suppression of Vice urged newspapers not to document the case.

The inspector also wanted an exoneration protocol so that those who had been found corrupt by Icac and who had not been convicted of a criminal offence after a trial could apply to the supreme court to expunge Icac's findings.

Many trials for offences such as theft are cut and dry and are easily tried by a jury.