imprisonable offence

Then again, homosexuality in Cuba was an imprisonable offence till 1979.

The two men who lied were charged with making false witness statements, an imprisonable offence.

Failure to comply is an imprisonable offence.

It concluded the threat of prosecution for an imprisonable offence probably deterred the driver from coming forward at the time.

Is swearing an imprisonable offence now?

Advocacy of the replacement of the monarchy with a republic has been an imprisonable offence in law.

Anyone who has ever been convicted of an imprisonable offence irrespective of whether they actually were imprisoned or whether the conviction is "spent".

All prisoners will be returned to custody to serve the rest of their sentence if before that sentence expires they commit a further imprisonable offence.

Holocaust denial is not expressly illegal in Switzerland, but the denial of genocide and other crimes against humanity is an imprisonable offence.

(7 October 2010) Should Strict Criminal Liability be Removed from all Imprisonable Offences?

Thus the Commission saw these two vital controls on police power: the arrest had to be for an imprisonable offence and it had also, in addition to this, to be 'necessary'.

The main reasons for refusing bail are that the defendant is accused of an imprisonable offence and there are substantial grounds for believing that the defendant would:

The following year the government enacted the Opium Act of 1908, which made it an offence to import, manufacture, possess or sell opium, while not making it an imprisonable offence.

In 2005, he advanced a Private Member's Bill to outlaw abortion altogether, making it an imprisonable offence except where the mother's life was at risk or where conception was due to rape.

If being juvenile and annoying were an imprisonable offence then Cameron, Osborne and most of the cabinet should be behind bars - They could do with some time to reflect on their actions.

This would apply only to a juvenile already in care of a local authority and then found guilty of a further imprisonable offence, and would be for a fixed period of not more than six months.

A sentence of detention in a young offenders' institution (or YOI) is available to the court in respect of those between the ages of 15 and 21 years (inclusive) who have committed imprisonable offences.

In the case of a person arrested for an imprisonable offence, the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing that the detention of the person arrested is necessary to prevent him from committing an offence.

Henceforth, every Member State will have to make it an imprisonable offence to publicly justify, deny or crudely trivialise crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and I am satisfied about that.

Because those who re-offended went to prison automatically, without the possibility of a non-custodial sentence the next time they were convicted of an imprisonable offence, they might remain in custody for a longer time than would otherwise have been the case.

It should be the same with immigration - any non British citizen should be deported if they commit an imprisonable offence, on the ground of their social obligation that should go hand in hand with the right to be in the UK.

For a Ferengi man to go into business or even take business advice from a woman was an imprisonable offence, and for a man to subject himself sexually to a Dominant Female was a capital crime "not fit to be named among the acquisative."

Otherwise, if there is adequate medical evidence and the defendant has been convicted of an imprisonable offence, a hospital order requires that the defendant be admitted to and detained in a hospital for treatment for a mental disorder (see sections 37-43 of the Mental Health Act 1983).