Sentences with phrase «suspicion of an offence»

The 18 - year - old was arrested on suspicion of blackmail; the other four were arrested on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act.

Therefore, mere suspicion of an offence is insufficient.

When section 102 of the Firearms Act was enacted, granting firearms officers the right to inspect the homes of law - abiding gun owners without warrant or suspicion of an offence, many questioned this seeming violation of privacy and fundamental rights.

Not exact matches

He was held on suspicion of terrorism offences, murder and attempted murder.

The Guardian: Bishop's arrest part of broad inquiry into Chichester diocese child abuse The arrest of Bishop Peter Ball on suspicion of sexual offences against boys and men at addresses in East Sussex and elsewhere is the latest development in a wide - ranging and often contentious series of official inquiries into decades of alleged child protection failures in the diocese of Chichester on England's south coast.

A spokesman from Avon & Somerset Police told Premier: «A 53 year old was arrested on Saturday 19th August 2017 on suspicion of a racially or religiously - motivated public order offence.

«Detectives from the MPS [Metropolitan police service] have this morning, 7 August, arrested a 32 - year - old - man, on suspicion of committing an offence under the Protection of Harassment Act, 1997,» Scotland Yard said in a statement.

Last week statistics for the use of section 44 - the power enabling stop and search without any suspicion - showed that of the more than one hundred thousand people stopped last year, not one was arrested for a terrorism - related offence.

The 21 - year - old man was arrested in Hounslow, west London, on Saturday night on suspicion of a terror offence and is in custody in south London.

«On that score, it could be said that the steps taken by the respondent are based on reasonable suspicion of the applicant having committed an offence.»

(c) the lawful arrest or detention of a person effected for the purpose of bringing him before the competent legal authority on reasonable suspicion of having committed an offence or when it is reasonably considered necessary to prevent his committing an offence or fleeing after having done so;

The Sun yesterday also claimed that Venables had been arrested on suspicion of a serious sexual offence.

Yesterday evening FSB officials visited employees at their homes while its St Petersburg head, Stephen Kinnock, was stopped by police on Tuesday night on suspicion of a driving offence.

As the Press Association reports, a total of 228 people were held on suspicion of terrorism - related offences over a 12 - month period ending in June, compared with 140 during the previous period.

Two Leicester City fans have been arrested on suspicion of homophobic related offences following the clubs match against Brighton Hove.

If an employer wants to issue notice of dismissal on grounds of suspicion, the circumstances need to be sufficiently suspicious such that it is almost certain the employee in question committed the relevant offence.

The police (if so inclined) will instead arrest on grounds of reasonable suspicion of the new s 42A offence.

(b) doing anything intended to cause some other person to be suspected of having committed an offence that the other person has not committed, or to divert suspicion from himself;

The bill will also grant new police powers where drone users would need to produce registration documents on request, ground a drone safely in certain circumstances and the ability to seize and retain a drone's components if there is reasonable suspicion of it having been involved in an offence

«(1) A person commits an offence if he possesses an article in circumstances which give rise to a reasonable suspicion that his possession is for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.

«A person commits an offence if he possesses an article in circumstances which give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he intends it to be used for the purpose of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism.»

Another example of doubts about culpability is people who have been arrested on suspicion of a driving offence but were unable to provide a specimen of breath, urine or blood owing to various phobia: did they «refuse to provide» or were they unable to do so?

The analysis must remain focused on one central question: is the totality of the circumstances, including the specific characteristics of the suspect, the contextual factors, and the offence suspected, sufficient to reach the threshold of reasonable suspicion?»

POCA criminalises all forms of money laundering, and also creates offences concerning failure to report suspicion of money laundering.

The court added: «A further matter of concern is that the judge may have been left with the view that the officers of the first defendant [the BTP] had some suspicions about the honesty of the firm L simply because it had been instructed to act for MS.. But, as Keene LJ said in the Faisaltex case (at para 47) «A solicitor is not to be regarded as someone tainted and unreliable because, for example, he acts for someone charged with or convicted of a criminal offence.

In answer to my first question — it makes no difference whether the text of the former s. 487.012 (3)(a) of the Code contained a reasonable suspicion standard or whether the phrase «reasonable grounds to believe that an offence... has been or is suspected to have been committed» was a variation of it.

Parliament had gone to some lengths to avoid a procedure which crossed the criminal boundary: there was no assertion of criminal conduct, only a foundation of suspicion; no identification of any specific criminal offence was provided for; the order made was preventative in purpose, not punitive or retributive; and the obligations imposed had to be no more restrictive than were judged necessary to achieve the preventative object of the order.

More practically, as a solicitor, the biggest changes are probably the most recent — the introduction of the new regulatory regime in Scotland which allows the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency to accept an offer of an enforcement undertaking, as an alternative to a criminal prosecution, where there is a reasonable suspicion that an offence has been committed.