Sentences with phrase «minor offences»

Many people are imprisoned due to an inability to pay fines or are convicted for relatively minor offences.

She says she has seen the programme used to remove people accused of minor offences like petty theft or begging.

Back when death was the punishment for even minor offences, it was supposedly difficult to obtain convictions.

Whilst criminal law is far more litigation based, candidates may be asked how they feel court proceedings can be improved and whether there is an alternative to litigation where minor offences are concerned.

Clean up your driving record - you may be able to remove minor offences from your driving record by attending traffic schools.

The practical effect of these rules is to limit the availability of a discharge to relatively minor offences where the person being charged has no prior criminal record.

Summary: Two aboriginal offenders (Omeasoo and Okeynan) were charged with minor offences and released from police custody on condition that they abstain from the consumption of alcohol.

The First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama has called on the Ghanaian Society to encourage community service with effective supervision for minor offences as an alternative to imprisonment to help reduce congestion in the prisons.

Bringing the entire weight of criminal procedure to bear on such minor offences as parking tickets was not only administratively burdensome; it also risked bringing the administration of justice into disrepute.

Also, if possible, instead of conviction, your lawyer can try to bargain for a discharge instead for more minor offences because discharges will not lead to criminal inadmissibility.

This drawing of a Justice of the Peace hearing and recording a Provincial Offences Act proceeding was included in Minor Offences, a Ministry of the Attorney General publication explaining the new legislation and procedures.

Paperless Arrests The Northern Territory's «paperless arrest» laws, introduced late last year, give police the power to lock someone up for four hours for minor offences like making undue noise; swearing in public; or keeping a front yard untidy.

The three editors were eventually acquitted of the conspiracy charge, but jailed for two other minor offences.

They condemn and degrade you if you aren't part of them, and they promise injustices like eternal torture for simple minor offences in your short life on earth.

Most crimes are relatively minor offences between people who know each other, Sims and his colleague informed MPs.

He said he wanted to «reprofessionalise» police officers and ensure they would stop investigating minor offences and instead back up civic - minded householders.

She said minor offences like stealing should be given community service as their sentences, instead of putting all such offenders to prisons which are already congested.

Remember how Nintendo of America employees would lay down the law after the most minor offence and ban a whole lot of things because of «safety»?

«Few people realize that the real administrative and workload burden on our justice system comes not from complex criminal trials, but rather from the ever - increasing flood of minor offences which is threatening to engulf the administration of justice in this province.

Warrants are issued for very minor offences, low sentences or to exercise 14 days of a temporary arrest at the pre - trial stage, regardless of the proportionality principle and legal common senses; therefore, the European legislators should take into their consideration that article 30.1 (Expanses) of the Council Framework Decision could be amended in order to impose the obligation of covering the fees by the issuing Member State for the proceedings in the executing state.

Thus, Immigration will automatically treat minor offences as major offences.

AFA 2006 not only fails to recognise the judgment in Hood but goes further by conferring COs with more sentencing powers, and actively encourages minor offences to be dealt with internally by the CO (as the judicial power) as opposed to being dealt with by the more «independent» forum that is the district court martial (DCM).

The aim was also to train Justices of the Peace who would preside over minor offences under the reserve band by - laws and hear other provincial regulatory offences...» [60]

Victor Clifford Solicitors are experienced criminal solicitors and we provide legal advice and assistance on all criminal law matters from minor offences involving road traffic offences to more serious offences such as drug importation / supply and murder.

By age 15, she had been before juvenile court 14 times for various minor offences such as trespassing and causing a disturbance.

Summary trials deal with minor offences related to military discipline and unit effectiveness.5 These are dealt with quickly so the member can immediately return to duty.6

«I was reading about young Kurdish men in Iran being hanged for minor offences without charge or trial.

The sorts of offences that they commit tend to be reasonably minor offences but they do tend to be repeat offenders and because of their homeless status, they are less likely to be offered alternatives... Their poverty and homelessness have a direct impact on whether or not they choose to commit crime.

The recent enactment of legislation in the Northern Territory that allows for the paperless arrest of people committing minor offences and the mandatory alcohol treatment scheme have already had a disproportionate effect upon Indigenous people in the Territory.

They don't need BRA's; they need to get out of the real estate business via the less - than - gentle prodding of the provincial enforcement authorities after they have been caught committing their second minor offence, or their first serious offence... period.

The Inquisition also concerned itself with more minor offences: blasphemy, superstitious behaviour, and a range of sexual crimes (fornication, bigamy, perversion and solicitation in the confessional).

Thistletown officials had her charged with minor offences, arguing that she needed controls that they could not provide.

Amendments to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 proposed in the Coroners and Justice Bill 2008 - 09 [PDF](Part 3, Chapter 4: Live Links — p. 56) would allow authorities in a number of London and North Kent police stations to determine that an accused should appear before a bail court, or for trial of minor offences, via a live video link to a remote courtroom.

These measures may now seem entirely commonplace — indeed, only too familiar to those of us who have had to deal with parking tickets or other minor offences — but at the time they were profound innovations.

Another Ontario court has waived the unreasonably high minimum environmental fines for relatively minor offences that the Environmental Protection Act sometimes now imposes.

However, if it was an issuing state, there is a chance the specified judicial or designated authority wouldn't pursue the EAW in minor offences, as it would be simply too expensive comparing to an interest of justice.

He was later reinstated as the Labour candidate after legal advice ruled that Charles» minor offence as a juvenile didn't count as he received a conditional discharge and not imprisonment.

I maybe be reading this wrong, but whenever Arsenal are successful, especially in Arsene's first ten years, they repeatedly had players sent off: like Patrick Viera, who often got double booked, even for minor offences.

According to the Irish Times, District Judge Chris Holmes told Belfast Magistrates» Court he was in no doubt Smyth's conduct outside the city centre clinic had been threatening and should not be considered a minor offence.

Decriminalization (where it has occurred) has made pot possession a minor offence (confiscation, small fine).

in the gaa in ireland the players name can be taken for an offence... they then can get booked after that or they can get booked straight away depending on how bad the offence is... it does work well for minor offence «s but you «ll never have fifa, uefa, or the fa making a logical change like that!!!!

How sad and frustrating that a minor offence had him yellow carded against Montenegro and thus ruled out of the England game at Wembley.

Of the 150 cases before magistrates courts so far, the majority of defendants were remanded in custody despite pleaded guilty to relatively minor offences.

David Winnick was unkind enough to remind her of the Ipswich prostitute murders, where killer Steve Wright's DNA was found on one of his victim because of a previous arrest for a more minor offence.

Next up is a piece which looked at research from a legal charity which suggested a home office programme intended to remove serious foreign criminals or those in the UK illegally may be being used to remove EU citizens for minor offences.

The Derbyshire councillor controversially stepped away from the contest after it emerged that a minor offence he committed in his teens 47 years ago would bar him from standing for the role.

Currently, the Data Protection Act says that people abusing personal data - which include everyone from divorce lawyers, private detectives and journalists - can get a fine up to # 5,000 for minor offences, or an unlimited fine in the most serious cases.

They fear the tabloid backlash from a sentencing policy which explores alternatives to incarceration, especially for minor offences.

Opposition politicians have attacked the Government over proposals to link fines for minor offences to earnings.

Under a legal loophole, 17 - year - olds are treated as adults in police stations and are often put in custody overnight or through the weekend for minor offences, such as cannabis possession.