Sentence examples for offences now from inspiring English sources

Minor public-order offences now carry maximum jail sentences of 60 days, up from 15.

In 2005 a tenth of those in prison were there because of drugs offences; now it is a quarter.

America's imprisonment rate for drugs offences now exceeds that for all crimes in most West European countries.

Officials are worried, he says, about using courts to handle offences now dealt with by laojiao because more sensitive cases would come to light.

The clergyman, who befriended the troubled rock singer Pete Doherty when the star spent 13 nights in Pentonville in January for drugs offences, now faces the sack and could lose his prison-owned home.

The treaties also protect civilian non-combatants from deliberate or indiscriminate attack, reprisal killing, hostage-taking, starvation and deportation.Lowest of the lowIn addition to war crimes and genocide, there is another category of offences now recognised in international law (and first applied at the Nuremberg trials): crimes against humanity.

We've got some things on that offence now.

"The language we used was not in any way intended to cause offence, now this has been brought to our attention, we will endeavour to use more precise language in the future".

However, the objection to those shows is that the assumptions behind the characterisation and writing date from an era of different attitudes to race and therefore risk causing offence now.

Other court proceedings regarding the more serious offences will now follow in Yorkshire.

Jamie, who became notorious as Marquess of Blandford (born 1955) for drug convictions and other offences, is now 12th Duke.