Sentences with phrase «categories of offences»

There is also a steady and significant increase in most categories of offences.

69 Expanding the categories of offences for which fingerprints may be taken is not a simple solution, particularly where that category may include regulatory matters.

If there are no others, it will normally fall within the category of offences of causing death by dangerous driving which lack any additional aggravating features.

Not exact matches

● carry out large scale processing of special categories of data, or data relating to criminal convictions and offences.

The previous starting threshold recommended for all corporate manslaughter convictions was # 500,000, but under the new guidelines, a category A (high culpability) offence committed by a large organisation would start at # 7.5 million with a category range of between # 4.8 — # 20 million.

The new AGFS proposals include: · Fees based on the seriousness and complexity of the work done, · Restoration of separate payments for PTPH, sentence and mentions, · Restoration of payment for the second day of every trial, · Payment of # 300 for trials which become ineffective, · No more arguments over the service of material as evidence, · A near four-fold increase in offence categories to capture the seriousness and complexity of cases, · Restoration of career progression — earnings increase as the work becomes more challenging, and · Encouragement for advocates with the necessary skills to take on more complex cases.

The appellant in IH (Eritrea)[2009] UKAIT 00012 was caught by s 72 because he had been convicted of an offence in a category deemed to be particularly serious irrespective of the sentence (sexual assault).

This is aggravated by the fact that the offences which belong to the categories of terrorism and serious crime are not exhaustively listed (para. 235).

For more examples of property - related offences that fall under this category, you will want to see below for a more extensive list:

The first category consists of full mens rea offences.

Our lawyers have experience defending clients against numerous charges that fall under the category of driving offences, including:

Hence, the restriction was tantamount to `' a blunt instrument» which «indiscriminately stripped a significant category of prisoners of their Convention rights and it imposed a blanket and automatic restriction on all convicted prisoners irrespective of the length of their sentence, the nature or gravity of their offence or of their individual circumstances».

The headline points are: ● prolonged, persistent and deliberate bad driving and consumption of drink and drugs puts offenders in the most serious category with jail sentences of at least seven years; ● a combination of these features of dangerous driving accompanied by aggregating factors, such as a bad driving record, attracts sentences towards 14 years; ● careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs provides for a longer sentence, as the degree of intoxication increases; ● regarding mobile phones — an offender distracted by a handheld mobile phone when the offence was committed will be treated as particularly serious; ● reading or composing texts over a period of time at the wheel is also likely to result in a higher level of seriousness and offenders should serve up to seven years in prison.

However, there is a category of hybrid offences where, even when the Crown elects to proceed by indictment, the accused will have no choice as to mode of trial, but must be tried by a Provincial Court judge.

The POA contains three procedural streams that correspond to different categories of provincial offences.

In Merlin [4], following the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash, the Crown Court declined to move outside the Guideline sentencing ranges, despite a turnover of # 400m and an offence in the highest harm and culpability categories.

Theft is a very broad category of legal offences found in the Criminal Code of Canada («CC»).

The offence will carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for some categories of cyberattack.

One of the most prominent changes includes a higher penalty for offenders whose speed falls within the most serious offence category in the speeding guideline.

The guideline range for a «micro» company guilty of category A corporate manslaughter offence is # 270,000 to # 800,000, with a starting point of # 450,000.

This analysis leads to one of 43 different offence levels [32] and six criminal history categories.

However, these instructions are organized around categories of sexual offences (sexual interference, incest, sexual assault, etc) and do not contain any specific directions cautioning juries about the operation of myths and stereotypes in trials of sexual offences.

Statistics Canada has published an article on Police - reported crime statistics, 2013 that shows most categories of criminal offences have... [more]

For the process to work as intended, sentencing for offences which fall into this category should usually be approached with these realities in mind and, so far as s 73 agreements are concerned, should normally lead to the imposition of concurrent sentences.

«Contempt offences fall within two broad categories, viz., contempt in the face of the court (contempt in facie) and contempts committed outside the court (contempt ex facie).

The «evidence in relation to an offence» category is particularly wide and will include minor transgressions like a cigarette found in the locker of a 15 - year - old — which is evidence, but not proof, of an offence concerning the underage purchase of tobacco.

London firms, Meyer says, will see a 17 % reduction in fee income, and many may choose not to defend those facing serious sexual offences since the total reduction in fee income for this category of work in London is nearly 27 %.

While the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publishes a range of data relating to prison populations, including a breakdown of offences committed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous inmates, there is no gender specific data available in this particular category.

The increases were reasonably comparable across many offence categories, although of particular significance has been the increase in imprisonment for robbery offences, which outstripped all other changes.