English translation of "infraction insuffisamment caractérisée" - "insufficiently demonstrated"

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166 months ago

Kate (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Law / Certificates
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	infraction insuffisamment caractérisée
Context:	l'affaire a été classée sans suite pour infraction insuffisamment caractérisée.
Keywords:	Le [date] les services du Parquet du Tribunal de Grande Instance de [ville] informaient [compagnie] que la plainte déposée par [compagnie] était classée sans suite, l'infraction étant insuffisamment caractérisée. - is this something like "insufficiently grounded"? also not sure if "infraction" is "offense", or...? They're talking about a civil case, not a criminal case, though. I think I need a better way to word this. thx in advance

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166 months ago

WILHELMINA TWENEBOA-KODUA wrote:

insufficiently grounded offence/or the offence was insufficiently established

166 months ago

MACVieira wrote:

insufficiently demonstrated

My comment:

The Tribunal informed Company A that "la plainte déposée par Company B était classé sans suite", which did not constituted an infraction to the regulations/law. In other words, the conduct/facts perpetrated by the company B did not fit the description set out in the allegedly infringed regulations. "Caracterisée" here means to fit a description of a conduct or situation set out in the law.
Infraction comes from infringing the law, it does mean to offend the law, but the word "offense" is more suited to criminal law, as you well pointed out (so you understood it correctly).

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An LL.M. and 10 years of common law practice.

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166 months ago

wrote:

Yes, insufficiently demonstrated infraction

166 months ago

wrote:

Yes, insufficiently demonstrated infraction

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