Sentences with phrase «high culpability»

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.

As a parallel example, many legal jurisdictions, for instance, assign a higher culpability to drug pushers / dealers than to drug addicts, though unfortunately the latter group is in the United States subject to excessive legal penalties for non-violent drug offenses.

Not exact matches

Levy said Lazio's «culpability» for the banking collapse «eviscerates the Republican high ground» - particularly in any GOP attacks on Cuomo's oversight of federally backed mortgage loans as Housing and Urban Development Secretary in the Clinton administration.

A higher or lower likelihood ratio can increase or diminish the likelihood of culpability, but the probability is also dependent on other cues and evidence, forensic and not.

On appeal, the appeal court upheld the High Court's view that the test of culpability was that which should objectively be expected of a child of that age.

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.

Now, «when the court finds that the defendant satisfies the criteria for dangerousness, a life sentence [under s 225 of the 2003 Act] should be reserved for those cases where the culpability of the offender is particularly high or the offence itself particularly grave» (per Mr Justice Openshaw at 17).

any other circumstance in which a high degree of taxpayer culpability contributed to a failure to comply.

However even if it were not dangerous in this sense, at these and higher levels the sentencing decision would normally fall within the two most serious categories of culpability.

The Crown Attorney argued an adult sentence was necessary to reflect the youth's high degree of moral culpability.