Sentence examples for offences criticised from inspiring English sources

Nick Freeman, a lawyer who has represented a string of celebrities accused of drink driving offences, criticised the sentence.

Ms Martin pledged to abolish the former government's mandatory-sentencing law for theft and property offences, a law criticised by the United Nations because it was seen as aimed at homeless, unemployed aboriginal youths.But perhaps the biggest shockwaves were felt in Canberra, where the federal conservative coalition government, led by John Howard, is facing an election by December.

It is a criminal offence to criticise it, and the press is muzzled.

The generals also imposed a law making it a criminal offence to criticise Ataturk publicly.

The offence of criticising the country's powerful media has been met with increasingly tough punishment in the wake of unrest following the forceful seizure of control in Egypt from the Muslim Brotherhood.

While Wilson met the joke without obvious offence, many viewers criticised the incident as jarring.

It's probably a treasonable offence today to criticise Danny Boyle.

Sumner's offence was to criticise Brooks for supporting slavery.

South Korea's former Fifa vice-president Chung Mong-Joon was banned for six years in October for conflict of interest and non-cooperation – the latter offence can simply be having publicly criticised the Fifa ethics committee.

Soon after her accession she refused to back a gay pride march, arguing that discrimination was no longer a problem for homosexuals in Italy because the homophobia was just a thinking offence, a statement that was strongly criticised by gay rights groups.

He was widely criticised for saying alleged sexual offences committed by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange amounted to no more than bad "sexual etiquette".