Sentence examples for offences refused from inspiring English sources

Government rules preventing councillors from being sacked if they commit a crime are being reviewed after a parish councillor convicted of child pornography offences refused to resign.

The offence: Refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on the grounds that it violated her Pentecostal Christian beliefs.

The offence: Repeatedly refused to accept their daughter's identity in the weeks before and after her death, leading thousands of onlookers to blame them for it.

The following day he was charged with the 22 offences but he refused to answer any questions when interviewed.

In future, all applications from drivers with convictions for sexual or violent offences will be refused, except in "exceptional circumstances".

It is an offence to refuse to complete the census.

It is a criminal offence to refuse to comply with a search or questioning.

There is generally no obligation to give your name and address to the police Only if the police are using powers under specific legislation is it an offence to refuse to provide this information.

Those stopped have no automatic right to legal advice and it is a criminal offence to refuse to co-operate with questioning under schedule 7, which critics say is a curtailment of the right to silence.

Moore, who lives in west London but formerly spent time at the Occupy protest camp near St Paul's Cathedral in central London, said he was charged with a public order offence after refusing a police officer's order to leave the site.

But even in such adversity old habits die hard: the troops Australia sent to the devastated province of Aceh were viewed with suspicion by the Indonesian armed forces, which are suppressing a secessionist uprising there.Plainly, there are still tensions: Mr Howard caused offence by refusing to sign up to ASEAN's "treaty of amity and co-operation" which he instinctively feels is anti-western.