Sentences with phrase «other weapons offences»
In recent years, the Criminal Code has been substantially overhauled to create harsh penalties for gun and other weapons offences.
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Other offences included possession of an offensive weapon, drunk and disorderly and assault.
The other faces weapons offences, overcome resistance by choking, forcible confinement, uttering a threat, pointing a firearm and two counts of assault, including domestic assault charges.
Both minor weapons charges and more serious offences involving handguns and other firearms can carry onerous penalties.
We specialize in defending people facing allegation of assault, sexual assault, drinking and driving, fraud, weapon offences and tax evasion among others.
The courts will do what they can to help reduce, and, so far as practicable, eradicate it... it is important for public confidence in the criminal justice system that the man or woman caught in possession of a knife or offensive weapon without reasonable excuse should normally be brought before the courts and prosecuted... whatever other considerations may arise in the individual case, sentencing courts must have in the forefront of their thinking that the sentences for this type of offence should focus on the reduction of crime, including its reduction by deterrence, and the protection of the public.
Some offences are «primary designated offences» such as assault with a weapon or robbery, while others are «secondary designated offences» such as assault or threatening.
(1) Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to a term of imprisonment for life who (a) carries out a nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion for the purpose of developing qualitative improvements in nuclear weapons or developing new types of nuclear weapons...
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.