general criminal law

Nor does the fact that notice has been given confer any immunity on the participants from the operation of the general criminal law.

Senator Kennedy insisted that his bill did "not give practitioners of a particular religion the right to violate general criminal laws protecting public safety."

Accordingly the use or threat of violence in connection with a prison mutiny can be dealt with under the general criminal law.

The Government claimed that it did not hold any religious prisoners; such persons were usually convicted of violating national security laws or general criminal laws.

This country has never had a general criminal law against leaks, like Britain's Official Secrets Act.

Based in chambers in Leeds, he practises in general criminal law, specialising in defending service personnel at courts-martial both in the UK and abroad.

Defendants were dealt with under tribal law rather than the general criminal law, and probably received sentences more severe than if dealt with under the general law.

In 2001 he was appointed as a presiding judge of the 3rd criminal panel of the Federal Court of Justice (jurisdiction for general criminal law and crimes against the state).

In the St. Paul case, the teen-ager's appeal argues that the use of the bias ordinance is gratuitous because cross burning can be prosecuted under the city's trespass law and other general criminal laws.

Many of the prisoner cases the Court accepts are from prisoners who are under a death sentence, although the particular legal issue may be one of general criminal law and not specific to the death penalty.

The cases of young people between the ages of fourteen and twenty can, at the judgment of police, be sent to the public prosecutor for possible trial as adults before a judge under the general criminal law.

According to the Privy Council the law had been specially enacted to convict the men, under trial they did not have the protections that they would have had under general criminal law.

But the Clinton Administration official said the Federal inquiry was aimed at finding out whether Mrs. Whitman's campaign violated general criminal laws, although he said the inquiry would pursue possible civil-rights or voting-rights violations.

The risk of sectoral legislation about one particular kind of fraud is that you simply regulate one part and leave on the margins new forms of fraud, which is unregulated or left under only general criminal law regulation.

He presently serves as the Co-Chair of the National Association of Attorneys General Criminal law Committee and the Tobacco Executive Board, as well as the Conference of Western Attorneys General Executive Board.