Sentence examples for offences called from inspiring English sources

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.

"In October 2014, Asic chairman Greg Medcraft declared that Australia was a 'paradise' for white-collar criminals because of its soft punishments of corporate offences, calling on the government to give the regulator the power to impose harsher jail terms and bigger penalties for white-collar crime," Bowen said.

State is an offence called jostling.

Barwick's legislation introduced an offence called "treachery".

It repealed older sections criminalising attempts to force a miscarriage and replaced them with an offence called "destruction of unborn human life", which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment.

"I have not heard the justice secretary's interview, but the position of the government is very clear: there is an offence called rape and anyone who commits it should be prosecuted, convicted and punished very severely," the prime minister said, adding that the plea bargaining plans were designed to increase the number of rape convictions.

Recently passed into law, despite opposition from more than 60percentt of NSW residents, the bill creates a new offence called "aggravated unlawful entry on inclosed lands".

But it was not until that act was amended in 1995 that the offence was called a "war crime".

The World Medical Association also spoke out about the offence and called on Abbott to amend the laws to allow for a public interest defence.

"How often is he going to keep apologising for these things?" Labour MP Jim Sheridan, who sits on Parliament's culture, media and sport committee, also noted this was not Clarkson's first offence, and called for him to be sacked.

The activists, many from far-right groups, accuse the politicians of various offences, and call their actions "trash bucket challenges" - echoing the "ice bucket challenges" that were recently an internet viral hit.