Breaking law, guilty man in the soup (12)
I believe the answer is:
mulligatawny
'soup' is the definition.
(mulligatawny is a kind of soup)
'breaking law guilty man' is the wordplay.
'breaking' indicates anagramming the letters.
'law'+'guilty'+'man'='lawguiltyman'
'lawguiltyman' with letters rearranged gives 'MULLIGATAWNY'.
'in the' is the link.
(Other definitions for mulligatawny that I've seen before include "One type of soup" , "Indian soup" , "Curried soup" , "Curry flavoured soup" , "Spicy meat soup, originally from India" .)