Sentences with phrase «other violent offences»

These types of conditions commonly arise in domestic assault offences and other violent offences.

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«Article 3 (3) of the Constitution, 1992 makes it the offence of high treason for any person to suspend, overthrow or abrogate the constitution by violent or other unlawful means, or to aid and abet any other person in such acts.

At present deportation is considered in cases which involve offences that carry a 12 - month sentence in the case of sex or violent crimes or 24 months for other types of crime.

The same publication reports that sexual offences are less likely to be cleared by police than other types of violent offences, citing that in 2007, charges were laid in about a third of sexual offences reported to police, as compared to charges being laid in almost half of other types of violent crime reported to police.

Finally, the Statistics Canada publication found that sexual offences are, on average, less likely to result in a finding of guilt than other violent crimes.

She has appeared on behalf of clients charged with a full spectrum of offences, including murder and other serious violent offences, fraud and money laundering matters, drug and sexual offences.

At Corker Binning, the «shrewd» Robert Brown defended Charlie Gilmour, who was charged with the offence of violent disorder; and the team also represented Muhammad Asif, who was accused of entering into a conspiracy with others to bowl «no balls» to order during the Oval and Lord's Test matches between England and Pakistan in 2010.

A profile of Queensland female offenders revealed that 45.3 percent of Indigenous female inmates were sentenced for a violent crime, 28.3 percent for property crime, 24.5 percent for «Other» crime (which includes social security fraud, procedures offences, unlawful possession of weapons and driving related offences) and 1.9 percent for drug offences.

In some circumstances it may be too distressing, or even harmful, for the child to have contact with their parent, for example where a parent has committed a violent offence towards the other parent or towards the child.

It can be more difficult knowing what to tell a child if the parent has committed a sexual or violent offence, or a crime against the other parent or another family member.

Carol La Prairie's investigations of similar statistics in Canada suggest that there are three ways Indigenous women living in violent situations may end up convicted of violence offences: «they may retaliate with violence against abusive family members; they may resort to drug and alcohol abuse to escape abuse; or their victimisation may lead to the abuse and neglect of others».