Sentences with phrase «taking speeding points»

The ex-wife of former MP Chris Huhne was today found guilty of perverting the course of justice by taking his speeding points a decade ago.

Earlier the former wife of Chris Huhne was found guilty of perverting the course of justice for taking his speeding points a decade ago.

The ex-wife of former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne's has served around a quarter of an eight - month sentence for taking speeding points for him.

Vicky Pryce, the ex-wife of former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice by taking his speeding points.

Pryce was found guilty by a jury last week of perverting the course of justice by taking speeding points for Huhne in 2003.

His ex-wife Vicky Pryce, who was found guilty of perverting the course of justice for taking his speeding points, is believed to still be a member of the Liberal Democrats.

She received the same sentence for taking speeding points on her driving licence that were picked up by Huhne in 2003.

9.30 am Chris Huhne and ex-wife Vicky Pryce plea and case management, after both were charged with perverting the course of justice over allegations she took speeding points on his behalf.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg says he is «shocked and saddened» after the former cabinet minister Chris Huhne admitted perverting the course of justice over claims his ex-wife took speeding points for him a decade ago.

Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice over claims his ex-wife Vicky Pryce took speeding points for him a decade ago.

The former energy and climate change secretary is accused of asking his wife to take speeding points intended for him after his car was caught by a speed camera on the motorway between Stansted Airport and London in 2003, when he was an MEP.

Both he and Pryce, who was convicted by a jury, have served prison sentences for perverting the course of justice when she took speeding points for her then - husband in 2003.

A jury rejected her claim that he had forced her to take his speeding points.

Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife are to stand trial over allegations she took speeding points for him so he could avoid prosecution.

Judge: Huhne and Pryce acted together to take the speeding points out of a share desire to avoid the inconvenience of him losing his licence

Huhne and Pryce have served prison sentences for perverting the course of justice after she took speeding points for her then - husband in 2003.

Police probing allegations Cabinet minister Chris Huhne made his wife take his speeding points have passed their findings to prosecutors.

Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne's Cabinet future was in doubt last night after sensational details were revealed of a phone call he made to the person he allegedly persuaded to take his speeding points so he could avoid a driving ban.

Have you ever asked your wife to take your speeding points?

7.11 pm: Huhne is asked about the allegations that he got his estranged wife to pretend she was driving in order to take his speeding points.

• Chris Huhne, the energy secretary, has said that he does not think he will be charged over allegations that he asked his wife to take speeding points on his behalf.

When Huhne is jailed for getting his wife to take his speeding points, and an aide remarks that had Huhne beaten Clegg to the leadership it would have been the party leader behind bars, Laws says merely that this would «certainly have been suboptimal».

Not exact matches

«At this point Melania would have to take Trump on a high - speed chase in a Ford Bronco for us to say, «This is unexpected!

I pointed out to Bob the irony — in a large company «fear of failure» inhibits speed and risk taking while in a startup «fear of failure» drives speed and urgency.

Speed is a key selling point, with Bitcoin taking several minutes to, in some instances, several hours to confirm a transaction, Dash processes a transaction instantly.

If you took the same readings at another point in the universe or while traveling at another speed you would get a totally valid but different time estimate of the earth.

Lyoto relied a lot more on his natural speed and that's gone now, no point in taking damage in fights he can't win.

Unfortunately, I think that when the pros take a closer look, they'll see a well - muscled 6» 6 guy, with 7» wingspan, speed of a young Tony Parker, plays defense like Bruce Bowen, except with much greater shot - blocking ability, flatfooted, his elbows go above the rim, and throw in a 40 % + from 3 - point land.

When the match race takes its place in racing's history books, the fundamentalists will almost inevitably give decisive weight to the circumstance mentioned by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons elsewhere in this issue: over an off track (in patches slow) Nashua and Swaps raced together at killing early speed: five - eighths of a mile in 58 seconds, three - quarters of a mile in 1:10 2/5 — two seconds faster than Swaps's time at the same point in the Kentucky Derby over a fast track.

The pair were charged over allegations Huhne persuaded Pryce to take his penalty points after he was caught by a speed camera between Stansted airport and London in 2003.

He is alleged to have asked Vicky Pryce, his wife at the time, to take the penalty points for a speeding offence for an incident that occurred way back in 2003.

Pryce is relying on a defence of marital coercion against allegations she took Huhne's speeding points over a March 2003 incident when his car was caught by a speed camera on the M11 motorway between Stansted Airport and London.

I'm not going to go into significant detail here unless you ask for it, but I will point to speeding tickets and licensing for out of state marriages as two examples of cases where the laws where you are currently located take precedence over the laws where you come from.

The economist was speaking following her own spell behind bars for taking her ex-husband's speeding points.

Mr Huhne is accused of persuading Ms Pryce to take responsibility for his penalty points for a speeding offence which occurred in 2003.

Isabel Oakeshott, the political editor of The Sunday Times who worked with Vicky Pryce to expose her taking of Chris Huhne's speeding points, has said she «really doesn't feel responsible for what has happened to her».

Pryce took three speeding points for Huhne a decade ago.

Mr Huhne faces political oblivion if he is formally accused of perverting the course of justice by allowing his wife to take speeding penalty points for him.

Today Pryce, 60, of Crescent Grove, Clapham, south London, was found of perverting the course of justice by taking Chris Huhne's speeding points a decade ago.

The seat was there to be taken the moment Huhne was caught fiddling his speeding points.

They took a conservative approach, discarding studies in which researchers had pointed at the lizards, walked towards the animals faster or slower than a particular fixed speed, or studied populations that were habituated to humans.

Back when creatine first became popular, it was suggested that creatine needed to be loaded, as in taking a large dose of it for a few days to speed up how soon the muscles will become saturated, and then drop down to a maintenance dose from that point on.

-- Work all ranges of the aerobic muscle fibres, I often go for a walk after a run or ride to just keep moving slowly — Trail solo or with small groups of friends that get what you are doing or you all have a central point to meet back at so you can adjust pace / speed to keep your own HR within the ranges you need to train at — Only take from your body what it is willing to give you on any given day and be content with that.

For another, it's not in the nature of movies to reflect the times so quickly: it took 15 years of development and rewriting as well as the invention of new technologies to make Benjamin Button possible, and although Milk came together with remarkable speed and focus under its producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, the idea of making a biopic about Harvey Milk, who was killed in 1978, has been around for so long that at one point, Dustin Hoffman, now 71, was touted to play the role that eventually went to Sean Penn (who is 48).

Yeah, he winces for a few minutes after rolling out of a speeding car, and Willis admirably takes a second at one point to register the distaste of killing, but such moments are hiccups in a chugfest of stupefying action.

The buzz is short - lived, however, for soon the Point Break - ish plot (undercover cop must infiltrate world of street racing to nab some high - speed truck hijackers / robbers) takes over and the film must rest on the meager talents of pretty boy Paul Walker, who plays cop Brian O'Connor.

This «operativo» turned into one of the most hair - raising and intense parts of the film and also an important turning point: while scoping out an area of town, they got shot at; frantically jumped out of the car to take cover; got info about who was shooting at them and went on a witch - hunt through town looking for a «white Jetta,» Instead, they found a seemingly innocent man in a white Cherokee; pulled him out of the car and then away from his family and distraught young daughter; interrogated him at gun point in the back seat of the car speeding through town as I was jammed in between the two middle seats; and then brought him back to a torture chamber where they were similarly interrogating others with tazers.

Recognizing the danger zones and safe points when standing still takes only a moment of analysis, but problems surface when speed is paramount.

Another change to the HD version are the uber long sailing times which have been replaced with the Swift Sail that considerably speeds up the time it takes to get from point A to B.

It was also pointed out that PARCC testing, which takes third - through 12th - graders 10 to 12 hours over a two - week period, is required to be done online, a problem for some rural districts which do not have access to high - speed Internet service.