Sentences with phrase «statutory offence»

At trial, the court found that the real purpose of the indemnity was to discourage the wife from reporting the matters in issue to the authorities, and wrote that «it would be in my opinion, contrary to public policy for the courts to lend assistance to the nondisclosure of statutory offences.»

First, ACSA 2001, s 108 amended the existing statutory offences to ensure that: - The common law offence of bribery extends to people holding public office outside the UK.

Many of these common law offences have been abolished in many jurisdictions but where this is so, they have been replaced with similar statutory offences.

In future, however, it seems likely that outraging public decency will be confined to those acts which do not fall squarely within the scope of a statutory offence.

Perhaps Dorset Constabulary wanted to go down in history as responsible for the last 1361 purge before kerb - crawling becomes a statutory offence.

In R v Rimmington; R v Goldstein [2005] UKHL 63, [2006] 2 All ER 257 — a public nuisance case — Lord Bingham made it clear that where a person's conduct falls within the scope of a statutory offence, «good practice and respect for the primacy of statute» calls for a prosecution under that provision rather than a common law offence in the absence of «good reason for doing otherwise».

According to the Wikipedia article Sexual harassment, sexual harassment is not a statutory offence in Germany: Sexual harassment is no statutory offence in Germany.

This is a statutory offence and originates from the

This is a statutory offence and originates from the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.

According to the Wikipedia article Sexual harassment, sexual harassment is not a statutory offence in Germany:

In this article, she confirms that forceless / threatless groping (or kissing) is not a statutory offence, and that there aren't any other laws that would apply in the general case.

Sexual harassment is no statutory offence in Germany.

Conduct that can be prosecuted only as conspiracy to defraud, that is to say conduct that is not covered by any statutory offence.

Torts are usually developed at common law, even the holding that a statutory offence may give rise to civil liability.

The usefulness of this offence to a prosecutor is that, unlike the statutory offences already considered, the emphasis is almost entirely on what was agreed.