(n.) One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.
(n.) The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(2) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(3) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
(4) An investigation into the shooting by the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s office has been completed and handed to the office of McGinty, the county prosecutor.
(5) "Greed is not good," said Preet Bharara, the New York federal prosecutor bringing the case.
(6) The optometrist should prepare prior to trial to assist the prosecutor in achieving these goals.
(7) This is such a difficult area for prosecutors to wrap their hands around.
(8) (A later mayor rose to prominence as one of her prosecutors: Rudy Giuliani.)
(9) The attorney, Thomas Bergstrom, declined to say where in Philadelphia his client will live while prosecutors appeal the superior court ruling.
(10) In Geneva, the Swiss chief prosecutor, Olivier Jornot, said he had launched an undisclosed number of investigations and said his office was paying very close attention to new information as it emerged.
(11) The involvement of one of South Korea’s most powerful men has rocked the country’s business world, as it signalled that prosecutors were prepared to use the full force of the law against the head of a company whose revenues are equivalent to a fifth of the country’s GDP.
(12) What we’re saying is the advertising is false.” Prosecutors are not asking the court to halt the company’s services while the suit proceeds.
(13) "The allegations were both serious and credible; the prosecutor should have recognised this and sought to build a prosecution … had police and prosecutors taken a different approach a prosecution might have been possible."
(14) "They have sown confusion in police departments about when to make arrests, made it more difficult for prosecutors to bring charges in cases of deadly violence and, most importantly, they have been responsible for a major increase in so-called 'justifiable homicides.'
(15) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
(16) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(17) It needed independent "trained professional disinterested prosecutors" in charge of prosecutions and military victims who did not get justice had civil courts available to them.
(18) In a rare move, the microblogging site announced on Friday that "in response to a valid legal request" it had provided the Paris prosecutor with "data that may enable the identification of certain users that the vice-prosecutor believes have violated French law".
(19) Please, forgive me,” Choi Soon-sil, a cult leader’s daughter with a decades-long connection to Park, said through tears inside the Seoul prosecutor’s building, according to Yonhap news agency.
(20) Special prosecutors investigating Park’s relationship with her longtime confidante , Choi Soon-sil, had demanded Lee’s arrest on charges of bribery, embezzlement and perjury.
Solicitor
Definition:
(n.) One who solicits.
(n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney.
(n.) The law officer of a city, town, department, or government; as, the city solicitor; the solicitor of the treasury.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defendants on legal aid will no longer be able to choose their solicitor.
(2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(3) A defence solicitor, Mike Schwarz from Bindmans, said his clients would be appealing to the high court.
(4) Chambers' solicitor, David Allen Green, director of media at Preiskel and Co, welcomed the guidelines as "a step forward".
(5) That police sources were making such claims was confirmed by Taylor's solicitor, who told MPs that a named police sergeant had told him that 6,000 people may have had their phones hacked into.
(6) But she did back moves advocated by the Solicitor-General, Oliver Heald, to place a duty on parents to protect their children and make it illegal to permit their daughters to be mutilated.
(7) As Public Interest Lawyers , the rather inspiring firm of solicitors that took on the test case said: "You should not believe the DWP when it says that the judgment makes no difference.
(8) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.
(9) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
(10) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
(11) RBS says Green & Co is the "practising name of solicitors employed by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group", while Lloyds says SCM is "part of the in-house litigation department of Lloyds Banking Group ".
(12) Its submissions to the consultation, which it forced the MoJ to rerun, states: “There will certainly be plenty of redundancies among qualified solicitors … Given the rates of pay under the new scheme, firms will not be recruiting qualified solicitors but unqualified paralegals.” Nicola Hill, president of the LCCSA, said: “We’re seeing the effect of a policy which puts the cost of justice above its value.
(13) Austin's solicitors, Christian Khan, say their client's case was hampered by highly prejudicial findings by the judge in that case, Mr Justice Tugendhat.
(14) Margaret Finch and Sean Mcloughlin Directors, TRP solicitors, Birmingham
(15) Solicitors, conveyancers and mortgage lenders are reporting a rush to complete house purchases before the reintroduction of stamp duty on properties costing less than £175,000 on 1 January.
(16) Hockey made the order after receiving advice from the government solicitor.
(17) Coulson, who is now David Cameron's communications director, voluntarily attended a meeting with the Metropolitan police at a solicitor's office last Thursday, 4 November.
(18) Carole Berry, of Rollingsons Solicitors, said: "I had a simultaneous exchange of contracts on the 23 December to make sure the deal went through in time.
(19) All customer letters from DG Solicitors were compliant with the OFT debt recovery rules, and made clear that the firm was a trading name of HSBC and that its people were HSBC employees.
(20) If there is justice for Mark some of this sadness will end.” The family’s solicitor, Cyrilia Davies Knight, from Birnberg Peirce solicitors, said: “There are serious questions about whether this highly trained police officer, who shot Mark in broad daylight from an unobstructed view a few metres away from him, made a mistake that was reasonable and lawful.” She added: “A death of this kind is the cause of uniquely intense public concern as demonstrated by the disturbances after Mark’s death.