Sentence examples for penal cases from inspiring English sources

Many dioceses have church tribunals capable of handling just matters like marriage annulments, and not penal cases.

At the first level is the tribunal, to which civil and commercial litigation is submitted and which takes action in penal cases of the first instance.

Only the pope can handle penal cases against bishops under canonical law, so if the taboo against disciplining bishops is to be broken, only he can break it.

In 2011 there were 640 civil cases and 226 penal cases processed by the Vatican's judiciary, 99 per cent of which involved some of the 18 million tourists who pass through the Vatican Museums and St. Peter's Basilica each year.

2009 - IMPLEMENTING ALTERNATIVE MEASURES TO DETENTION IN PENAL CASES This publication is a working report of the Forum and it offers a complete overlook of the seminar and the issues it analyzed.

A related legal process, described by Lauta (2014a) as "a spectacular penal case", opened up the Black Box3 (Latour 1987) of societal risk management and scrutinised at length the behaviour of a number of officials, most of whom were scientists (Alexander 2014a).

Judge Rocha wrote that under the country's penal code, cases against defendants with dementia should be dismissed.

The Kolkata police district registered 15,510 Indian Penal Code cases in 2010, the 8th-highest total in the country.

Laura Janes, a children's solicitor and caseworker at the Howard League for Penal Reform, has seen cases that made her jaw drop.

I later co-authored a book on the riot, which fostered the notion that I could perhaps use the pen to make the case for penal reform.

Since the importation of the liquor here involved cannot possibly be said to fall within the classifications for which permits are granted, these statutory provisions as applied to the circumstances in this case are penal, and as such, may be applicable to the Reservation under the Assimilative Crimes Act.