Example sentences of "a criminal [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beggars ca n't be choosers : better to depend even on dubious private money than a criminal state |
| 2 | We must build and restore and this is possible even now , if only it were understood that the former dependence of museums on the resources of a criminal state was an abomination which there would be no shame in abandoning . |
| 3 | This is not a civil remedy ( as above with private nuisance ) ; it is a criminal deterrent , to be used to ensure compliance with standards of health and hygiene , etc . |
| 4 | He said a suggestion that he was a criminal overlord in Glasgow was nonsense and that he could not understand why he had a reputation as the godfather . |
| 5 | Yet this was not a criminal trial but a judicial inquiry , and even if Lane wanted to chance his arm by putting the question , Brabin might have come to my rescue by explaining it . |
| 6 | Unlawfully obtained evidence is not automatically excluded from a criminal trial . |
| 7 | In many countries , a criminal trial has the following stages : indictment , prosecution case , defence case , summing up , verdict , sentence . |
| 8 | ‘ the function of the judge at a criminal trial as respects the admission of evidence is to ensure that the accused has a fair trial according to law . |
| 9 | Having regard to the fact that Parliament has not abolished the privilege against self-incrimination Mr. Tully would be entitled to rely on that privilege if but only if and so far as compliance with the order of Buckley J. would provide evidence against him in a criminal trial . |
| 10 | It is well established that the judge in a criminal trial has power to call a witness . |
| 11 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 12 | " A criminal trial is n't a tribunal for eliciting the truth . |
| 13 | On the other hand , a woman is unlikely to wish to involve herself and her family with the police and a criminal trial when no rape has taken place . |
| 14 | However , generalisations about the sexuality of women is of no more relevance in a criminal trial than generalisations about sadistic tendencies or pornographic fantasies in men . |
| 15 | An allegation of dishonesty , however small the amount , is never a minor matter for a defendant and choosing the appropriate venue for a criminal trial is not just a matter of considering whether the magistrates ' court has adequate sentencing powers . |
| 16 | The leading example is Hodgson and Channel 4 v UK : Until 1989 , the media had no right to challenge a gag order imposed by a judge at a criminal trial . |
| 17 | It may however , present a defendant in a criminal trial with a way of side-stepping the requirement that only the Attorney may bring actions for unintentional contempt . |
| 18 | Where there is strong evidence of guilt , defendants given the benefit of the doubt by a jury in a criminal trial will be reluctant to chance their luck a second time by bringing a libel action . |
| 19 | Both " obscenity " and " indecency " are defined by reference to vague and elastic formulae , permitting forensic debates over morality which fit uneasily into the format of a criminal trial . |
| 20 | If for instance this was a criminal trial as to which will rule this to inadmissibility exactly the same . |
| 21 | Many parents would be shocked by rap songs about men mutilating female genitalia , with graphic descriptions that we would not reproduce in reporting a criminal trial let alone an article on popular culture . |
| 22 | It 's the first time the high court has stopped a criminal trial from going ahead . |
| 23 | The court may deny an action to a plaintiff who suffered damage while participating in a criminal activity . |
| 24 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
| 25 | The dolphin received further protection in 1975 , when the District Magistrate of Sukkur made trapping or killing of dolphins illegal under a Criminal Procedure Code , which was given extensive publicity by drums , through radio and newspapers , and by placing posters in key locations . |
| 26 | Here then is a criminal phenomenon that is associated with social disintegration — the fact that a society , the inhabitants of these areas of the great cities , who once regarded themselves as one , now no longer regard themselves as one , are not one , were one in the past but are not one now , and are still growing apart . |
| 27 | But she added that prosecution and imprisonment by a criminal court did not serve the interests of the family as a whole , or of the child who remained part of it , or how victims would deal with contact with the abuser after release . |
| 28 | A criminal court which admitted such a defence would never hear the end of it . |
| 29 | Petty Sessions or Quarter Sessions : a criminal court , as opposed to a magistrate 's court where only short sentences could be imposed . |
| 30 | The functions of the judge were curtailed and his quasi-criminal jurisdiction transferred to a criminal court . |