Sentence examples for principle of joint from inspiring English sources

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Bentley was heard to utter the words "Let him have it", so he was convicted of murder under the principle of joint enterprise and hanged in 1953.

The long-established principle of joint enterprise allows defendants to be found guilty of offences committed by another person if they have agreed to act together for a common purpose.

In the years that followed, lawmakers certainly thought so: the principle of joint enterprise, or common purpose, was cemented into British law and indeed copied in other jurisdictions, including the US and Australia.

"However I do believe the application of the principle of joint enterprise to the most serious of offences such as murder and GBH requires boundaries and careful application if it is to avoid unjust outcomes.

In 1970 the old language stating that "the husband is the head of the family" was abandoned in favour of a new principle of joint family decision-making power, which did not, however, extend to the management of community property.

Shauneen Lambe, director of Just for Kids Law, said: "In the last 10 years, [we have] seen a rapid increase in children being charged and convicted of the gravest of offences, including murder, under the controversial extended principle of joint enterprise, which means that they did not even have to intend an offence to happen to be found guilty of it.

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The principles of joint ownership help to encourage networking and co-operative behaviour.

It was what happened earlier that led to Jogee's conviction under the principles of joint enterprise.

The principles of joint design, namely avoiding peel and cleavage-loading conditions, must be scaled down to meet the ever decreasing device sizes.

In conclusion, our study has established basic principles of joint action of chemicals that affect an endpoint of relevance to genotoxicity.

It remains to be seen whether the principles of joint action that we established for MN-inducing chemicals are also applicable to other genotoxicity endpoints, such as gene mutations, chromosome mutations or carcinogenicity.

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