Sentences with phrase «offence against society»
Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.
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In that case, three separate actions for malicious prosecution were brought against the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (the «OSPCA») who had charged three individuals with animal cruelty offences.
One of the cases presented to me at this moot was Kathryn Leah Smithen v. Law Society of Upper Canada, dealing with an applicant who «disclosed a criminal history of 38 or 39 convictions for fraud - related offences between 1979 and 1993, several outstanding civil judgments, two judgments entered against her in actions involving fraud, two terminations of employment for cause, and two declarations of bankruptcy.»
The Law Society of Ontario covered up and whitewashed hundreds of crimes by lawyers who committed criminal offences against their clients — according to the Toronto Star's Broken Trust investigation.