Embezzlement and disorderly conduct in the senate were the offences charged against Shafirov, and with some justice.

On September 2007, "The Appeals Chamber finds that the Trial Chamber reasonably found that Fatmir Limaj does not incur criminal responsibility for any of the offences charged in the indictment," Judge Fausto Pocar said.

The offence is not fully equivalent to the offence charged as Arson in England and Wales but can be found described in such a manner in some official statistics dealing with destruction of property by fire where the equivalence has been made as a matter of convenience.

It is common to find both offences charged together where criminal events involve fire and both offences carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

The Pakistan Penal Code usually called PPC is a penal code for all offences charged in Pakistan.

After a three-hour retirement, the jury acquitted the appellant of the offence charged under section 18, but convicted him of the lesser offence under section 20.

On the trial of an indictment for murder, the jury cannot return an alternative verdict to the offence charged in that indictment under section 6(3) of the Criminal Law Act 1967.

The court in turn may issue a fine (up to level 1 or level 3 on the standard scale depending on the offence charged).

Counsel for the Public Prosecutor opens his or her case by stating shortly the nature of the offence charged and the evidence by which the accused's guilt is proposed to be proved.

However, this was overruled since the " criminal law relating to the offences charged against the appellants at the time of their commission was substantially the same as that which obtained at the time of the convictions".