Sentence examples for take on prosecutions from inspiring English sources
Georgette Gagnon, human rights director for the UN in Afghanistan, said: "We are calling on the Afghan authorities to take, of course, much greater steps to both facilitate reporting of incidents of violence against women and actually open investigations and take on prosecutions".
A highly touted pair of DNA legal experts, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, were brought in from New York to take on the prosecution's physical evidence, a task they tackled with vigor.
The Crown Prosecution Service will dramatically ramp up the number of tax evasion cases it takes on – with a view to prosecution – over the next two years, Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, told the Financial Times.
As a young assistant, Mr. Comey won respect for his legal abilities and his willingness to take on 'bread-and-butter prosecutions along with high-profile trials, associates say.
Now that the F.B.I. is investigating mortgage lenders in the subprime scandal, the issue of deferred prosecution agreements takes on even more urgency.
"I'm trying not to be on tenterhooks and think about what happens if the Crown Prosecution Service takes on the case, but if I am honest, it's gnawing away at me," she said.
Austerity cuts imposed by central government have left local government trading standards teams fearful of the financial risks of taking on major prosecutions, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute has warned in its latest survey of the profession.
No collective decision has been taken on whether they might pursue private prosecutions against the soldiers who carried out the killings.
Attorney General Dominic Grieve said any decisions taken by the Crown Prosecution Service could not be taken on a political basis.
Since he was appointed Mr. Khadr's lawyer last year, Commander Kuebler has taken on his cause with a drip-drip-drip of attacks on the prosecution.
So they did look at and take forward action on prosecutions when they went through this HSBC data.
