Sentences with phrase «imprisonable offence»
The phrase "imprisonable offence" refers to a crime or wrongdoing that is serious enough to be punishable by imprisonment. It means that if someone commits this offense, they can be sent to jail or prison as a consequence. Full definition
Civic rights go with civic responsibility, but these rights have been flagrantly violated by those who have committed imprisonable offences.»
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By 2005 the National Association of Probation Officers was warning that people were being jailed for breaching their Asbo, despite the behaviour which originally earned it not being an imprisonable offence.
Under the Criminal Justice Act, police can take and keep DNA samples from anyone arrested for an imprisonable offence - regardless of whether they are found guilty.
He was openly homosexual at a time when it was still an imprisonable offence; he hid nothing from the world.
This section will make three divisions as far as bail is concerned, namely (a) indictable imprisonable offences, (b) summary only imprisonable offences (which includes offences triable summarily only due to the value of the offence) and (c) summary only non-imprisonable offences.
The power to impose community penalties will be restricted to imprisonable offences, or offenders aged over 16 years who have on three or more occasions been sentenced to only a fine.
It is not an imprisonable offence.
In particular, we are concerned that no qualified lawyer may be involved with a case tried in the magistrates» court in which an unrepresented defendant is facing an imprisonable offence, and where it will be quite possible that a lay bench would preside, advised by an unqualified legal adviser, and with a DCW prosecuting.
That Act also authorised deportation of a person over 17 who has been convicted of an imprisonable offence.