Sentence examples for prosecutions were brought from inspiring English sources

Yet last year just two criminal prosecutions were brought.

But Americans for Gun Safety said fewer than 578 prosecutions were brought last year out of an estimated 150,000 violations, meaning that 99.6percentt of the violations go unpunished.

In 2012-13, 3,692 rape prosecutions were brought in England and Wales and 63% of these resulted in convictions, Acpo said.

The allegations are very serious and will take some time to investigate fully". It is true that no prosecutions were brought.

The Supreme Court ruled that double jeopardy did not apply to Lara since "the successive prosecutions were brought by separate and distinct sovereign bodies".

"Not enough prosecutions are brought, despite the re-energised Serious Fraud Office under David Green QC".

The Law Commission says the "likely to damage" test prevents prosecutions being brought because proving this requires more damaging information to be revealed in court.

One of the fears expressed about the court is that it will lead to "frivolous prosecutions" being brought for political purposes.

I am pleased that awareness of these cases of revenge pornography is growing so victims come forward to report these nasty crimes and prosecutions are brought where we have sufficient evidence".

Describing the case for reform as "overwhelming", Mr Gove will say: "We need to make sure prosecutions are brought more efficiently, unnecessary procedures are stripped out, information is exchanged by e-mail or conference call rather than in a series of hearings and evidence is served in a timely and effective way.

This 'qui tam policy' cannot be used to detract from the meaning of the language in the criminal section; and we cannot say that the same substantive language has one meaning if criminal prosecutions are brought by public officials and quite a different meaning where the same language is invoked by an informer.