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The phrase "unlawfully" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions that are not permitted by law or that violate legal statutes. Example: "The defendant was charged with unlawfully entering the property without permission."
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unlawfully
adverb
In a manner not conforming to the law.
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"The News of the World has suspended Clive Goodman, royal editor, pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of unlawfully intercepting communications," the paper said.
Another, and in my opinion, more interesting possibility is that when Atlas unlawfully asked its employees for their DNA, it harmed them by making them vulnerable to subsequent discrimination.
Two years ago, I began volunteering with Chreaa, interviewing prisoners and drafting bail applications for homicide remandees who had been unlawfully imprisoned for many years, still waiting for a trial date.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.26pm BSTurkey Turkey denies border block to Syrian refugees Turkey has denied that it is unlawfully blocking its borders to Syrians fleeing the violence ahead of a visit by the UN's refugee agency aimed easing reported restrictions.
After police unlawfully visited me at my home following a protest to tell me they were "watching me", I still jump every time my doorbell rings.
The United Kingdom was found to have acted unlawfully in fewer than one per cent of the cases lodged against it last year at the European court of human rights (ECHR), it has been revealed.
Following a 2006 ruling by the Office of Fair Trading that card providers were charging unlawfully high default fees, most have now cut them to £12.
Instead, due to the fact that he had apparently used a laptop connected to the physical network, hidden in a wiring cupboard in the university, the charges were of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer.
So what differences exist between the responsibilities of a community school and an academy governor – and if the headteacher blows the budget or the school acts unlawfully, might governors lose the coat off their back or end up in court?
Sinn Fein election workers forced officials to keep a Co Fermanagh polling station open unlawfully for 40 minutes after it should have closed on June 7, it was claimed at Belfast high court yesterday.
An inquest jury in 2007 decided the car driver had killed themself and in doing so had unlawfully killed those on the train.
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