"Would you want your face or your name used if someone filed a frivolous charge against you?"

But Ms. Minter, the executive board's lawyer, said: "These are not frivolous charges.

It would stop frivolous charges against high-level officials, but serious accusations would be waved on to an outside prosecutor.

It is pertinent to point out that the evidentiary requirement for zina was initially intended to protect men and women from frivolous charges.

But as you did, I hope you saw how the majority proposes to dress up this almost frivolous charge.

I am not going to walk away from it because people are making frivolous charges.

Such a panel could render a double service by credibly shooting down frivolous charges and by bracing the House in its duty to police wayward members.

But the tribunal's mandate will cover only the most serious issues of war crimes and crimes against humanity, where it would be difficult to bring frivolous charges.

Credit card companies in some countries have been accused by consumer organizations of lending at usurious interest rates and making money out of frivolous "extra charges".

More than twenty seamen had been put in irons ready for a flogging next day for - at best - some frivolous charge contrived by Wallis.