Example sentences of "person [prep] [noun sg] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although there was a strong presumption against interpreting a statute as taking away the right of silence of an accused person it was the plain intention of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 that the powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office should not come to an end when the person under investigation had been charged ; and that , accordingly , she was entitled to compel the applicant to answer questions on pain of commission of a criminal offence under section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 if he did not do so and no caution was appropriate ( post , pp. 68F–H , 81C–F , 83E , 86H ) . |
| 2 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 3 | After recording that the specific purposes for which leave was granted were to quash the section 2 notice dated 24 June 1991 , and to require the applicant to be cautioned in accordance with paragraph 16.5 of Code C before being called upon to comply with the requirements of a section 2 notice , the court began by noting that these two grounds rested upon substantially the same basis ; namely that if the notice could lawfully be served after the person under investigation had been charged his constitutional right of silence would be lost , at any rate if a caution were not administered . |
| 4 | ‘ Thus it is plain from these dicta , as well as from the ratio decidendi of the case , that the Divisional Court regarded the Director 's powers under section 2 to obtain information and documents from third persons as remaining unimpaired after the person under investigation had been charged . |
| 5 | ‘ Declaration granted that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged , the Director of the Serious Fraud Office was required to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 6 | John-William Dallam 's law , according , to which , had she committed an offence against " the person — provided the person in question had been one of her own kind — then her sentence might well have been light ; a leniency by no means extended to offences against " property " which must be strenuously , mercilessly put down . |