1.   Police courts could impose sentences of up to six months, and district courts of up to two years.

2.   The judge is free to impose any sentence and can send the convicted individual to prison or hospital.

3.   The Assembly approved anti-terrorist legislation imposing a sentence of life imprisonment for kidnapping or the use of illegal force against people.

4.   They are generally awarded by juries, who have neither the power nor the proficiency to impose a sentence in any other area of law.

5.   The Magistrates took that into account when imposing the sentence, but warned the girl that they take the offence extremely seriously.

6.   More people are now facing committal proceedings and prison sentences have been imposed in a handful of cases.

7.   The impression the public gains is that judges frequently impose unsatisfactory sentences.

8.   Although the judge chastised the guard, Ronald Ferry, he imposed a sentence of six months of weekends in prison.

9.   Although jail sentences were not imposed, the penalties present a serious economic challenge for the Elseas, neither of whom is currently employed.