Sentences with phrase «while indictable»

Summary offences are minor crimes while indictable offences are more serious crimes.

Not exact matches

They insist that while God is partly responsible for much of what we call evil (meaning, I assume, that the reality of a persuasive God as source of novelty is a necessary condition of the world's creative advance), this does not mean that God is morally indictable.

I would like to express my own agreement with John Cobb and David Griffin who hold that a God of adventure, while perhaps responsible for the evil of discord that accompanies novelty, is not indictable for it.

Justice Wagner: «The appellant argues that the broad exclusion clause in the accident insurance contract to the effect that the insurer will pay no benefits if an accident occurred while the insured was participating in an indictable offence may be set up against the heirs of the insured.

While the Canadian government publicly defends the freedom to publish cartoons that mock a religious figure and looks abroad to protect religious minorities from oppression, section 296 of the Criminal Code makes it an indictable offence to publish blasphemous materials in Canada.

Murder during terrorist activity (6.01) Irrespective of whether a murder is planned and deliberate on the part of a person, murder is first degree murder when the death is caused while committing or attempting to commit an indictable offence under this or any other Act of Parliament where the act or omission constituting the offence also constitutes a terrorist activity.

A re-election to an indictable charge to proceed by summary election while the charge is before a superior court judge is permissible, but once re-election is complete the matter should be remitted to provincial court for guilty plea and sentencing.

Causing bodily harm by criminal negligence (street racing) 249.3 Everyone who by criminal negligence causes bodily harm to another person while street racing is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

Causing death by criminal negligence (street racing) 249.2 Everyone who by criminal negligence causes death to another person while street racing is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.

For example, the B.C. Health Professions Act stipulates that while a Registration Committee can impose limits or conditions (or refuse to grant registration) where an applicant has committed an indictable offence (i.e., something more serious than a summary conviction offence), the Registration Committee must be «satisfied that the nature of the offence or the circumstances under which it was committed give rise to concerns about the person's competence or fitness to practise the designated health profession.»

In certain circumstances, driving while suspended for a DUI could be an indictable offense, punishable by 180 - days in jail.