Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Triable
adj. Subject or liable to judicial examination and trial < a triable offense
triable either way
English law.(of an offense ) prosecutable either in the Crown Co. or in a magistrates' court. "The criminal courts in England and Wales are 1i . magistrates' courts and the Crown Court. Those offer considered least serious are summary offences, tri:: only in the magistrates' courts. Those offences considered most serious are triable only on indictment, in Crown Court. A large number of offences, such as theft and most burglaries, are 'triable either way,' in a magistrates court or the Crown Court. For these offences the defendant can elect to be tried at the Crown Court, where there is a judge and jury. If the defendant does not wish a Crown Court trial, the magistrates may decide (having heard representations from the prosecutor) that the case is so serious that it should be committed to the Crown Court for trial." Andrew Ashworth, Principles of Criminal Law 16 (1991).