Sentence examples for scope of criminal from inspiring English sources

In Brazil, judges have wide latitude to define both the direction and scope of criminal inquiries, and Judge Moro's willingness to pursue even the eminent and influential has made him a folk hero.

While Mr. Hernández-Gil said that "some fraud and abuses" might have occurred in providing state legal aid, he argued that the government's ballooning bill mostly reflected a rise of 80 percent over the past decade in the state legal aid workload, because of immigration and because the scope of criminal law was widened to include relatively common incidents like alcohol-induced traffic violations.

It could be troubling if the government uses Enron to increase the scope of criminal liability for executives, Podgor said.

But it is for Parliament, not the courts to expand the scope of criminal liability for this offence".

But it is for parliament, not the courts to expand the scope of criminal liability for this offense".

What is equally distressing is the scope of criminal activity to which these new digital surveillance techniques may be applied.

The next question concerns the proper scope of the criminal law: what kinds of conduct should be criminalized?

We must note, however, first, that this sets only extremely modest limits on the scope of the criminal law it does not even protect speech from criminalization, since speech certainly has an impact on the world.

That was probably beyond the scope of the criminal investigation.

Government officials are not talking about the scope of their criminal investigation of the airline.

As Parkshore grew, however, so did the scope of the criminal investigation.