A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions strongly rejected that mandatory placements would be used as a sanction, but said they could be offered in circumstances where advisers felt they were appropriate.
The Italian had allowed his players to conduct their own inquest into their shortcomings at the DW Stadium, where Petr Cech's dismissal had offered mitigating circumstances, but there were no excuses to be had here against one of the Champions League's lesser lights.
"With us being eight points behind with five minutes to go, if someone offered those circumstances and to take a point, I think there are a lot of teams who would take a point in those situations".
A spokesman for watchdog the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said: "We take the illegal sale of medicines online very seriously and will investigate any report received that medicines are being offered in circumstances that do not comply with UK requirements".
His half of the draw sheet has been by far the unluckier in respect of playing conditions, not that Spieth offered extenuating circumstance.
The youth league condemned the disciplinary committee for not allowing Mr. Malema and his four aides, who received shorter suspensions, to offer mitigating circumstances.
Surgery, such as gastric banding, stomach-stapling or stomach bypass - all of which restrict the size of the stomach - should also only be offered "in exceptional circumstances".
He denied all the accusations, and therefore offered no mitigating circumstances - not even for the mishandling of lethal medicines and false statements on death certificates that were incontrovertible facts.
These court-authorized agreements were not new but under certain circumstances offered more appropriate methods of providing justice in the best interests of the public as well as a company's employees and shareholders.
A DH spokesperson says that the £60,780 salary is the current maximum of what it describes as its "arm's-length body chair scale", but added that "there could be flexibility in actual salary offered in exceptional circumstances".
