Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] magistrates ' " in BNC.
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1 | It would have included responsibility for the finance , organization and administration of the Magistrates ' courts , and for criminal legal aid . |
2 | The regional public relations officer for the Hampshire incorporated Law Society Richard Newson , has fears about the future of the magistrates ' courts . |
3 | In 1971 ‘ Justice ’ , a group of liberal lawyers , published a booklet entitled The Unrepresented Defendant in the Magistrates ' Courts . |
4 | Criminal legal aid in the magistrates ' courts cost £14 million in 1976 , rising to £16¾ million the following year , an increase of 17 per cent . |
5 | Another possibility worth considering is taking articles with the clerk of a magistrates ' court with a view to this type of appointment . |
6 | This provoked fierce opposition on the part of the Magistrates ' Association , however , which viewed it as an unwarranted attack on the independence of magistrates , and just five years later the measure was repealed as a result . |
7 | The primary function of the Magistrates ' Court is to try criminal cases . |
8 | As recommended by Beeching , the Lord Chancellor assumed overall responsibility for the construction and administration of all courts above the level of the Magistrates ' courts . |
9 | By contrast requiring a case to be stated , just like the appeal by way of case stated from a decision of a magistrates ' court or the Crown Court described in chapter 7 , obliges the tribunal to set out its decision and the reasons for it together with a formulation of the questions to be considered by the High Court . |
10 | Today , jury trials are out of fashion , because censorship of the media is more easily achieved by an injunction , granted by a judge sitting in secret , or by a directive from a regulatory body like the Independent Broadcasting Authority , or by the decision of a magistrates ' court . |
11 | Certain of the magistrates were nominated to a special inner group , some of whom had to be present if a session of the magistrates ' court was to be lawful . |
12 | They are : the administration of the Crown Court and Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ; the financing , organization and management of the Magistrates ' courts ; legal aid , legal services , and costs from central funds ( policy and provision ) ; and the appointment , or advice on the appointment , of almost all judges , judicial officers and magistrates in England and Wales , and in Northern Ireland . |
13 | In April 1992 , the month in which responsibility for the financing , organization and management of the Magistrates ' courts passed to the Lord Chancellor 's Department , machinery of government changes made in the aftermath of the General Election transferred five existing Home Office functions to other departments . |
14 | Note that the Official Solicitor will not act in any capacity in the magistrates ' court . |
15 | It also suggests the possibility that demonstrators fall foul of the law in the magistrates ' court in ways which may never afterwards be given thoughtful re-examination at a more senior judicial level . |
16 | The Hugh Bell School in Middlesbrough opened on 7th January 1895 with 7 scholars as a deaf class in a cold , cramped room near the magistrates ' courts — who were wont to complain frequently about the noise from the alleyway between the classroom and the courts where the children played . |
17 | The request for reconsideration must be filed within two days of receiving the certificate of refusal from the magistrates ' court and copy documents must be served on the parties within this time limit . |
18 | To keep a child any longer than 36 hours requires consent from a magistrates ' court . |
19 | There is also provision for ABWOR to be provided at the request of a magistrates ' court or a county court by a solicitor within the precincts of the court for purposes other than the provision of ABWOR , where the court considers that the case should proceed the same day and that the client would not otherwise receive representation . |
20 | Any party to proceedings may appeal to the High Court against a magistrates ' court decision to make or refuse to make an order under the Children Act ( s94(1) ) . |
21 | Caterers may come into contact with the Magistrates ' Court in this way if they commit one of a number of offences relating to their profession , for example licensing offences , or offences under the Food Safety Act 1990 , or possibly offences under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
22 | When a case is transferred to the county court from the magistrates ' court , the county court must immediately consider whether further transfer to the High Court would be appropriate ( FPR , r4.6(4) ) . |
23 | The police were required to bring the detained person before a magistrates ' court ‘ as soon as practicable ’ after arrest . |
24 | The plaintiff must then put in the notes of evidence from the magistrates ' court ( or the Crown Court ) with a r21 notice and apply for directions under r28 in order to force the defendant to call all the witnesses from the magistrates ' court to give evidence in the civil trial . |
25 | The maximum fine in a Magistrates ' Court for breaches of ss 2 to 6 of the Act and of other sections relating to breaches of improvement notices , and prohibition notices or court remedy orders , has risen to £20,000 and all other breaches of the Act or subordinate Regulations and other relevant legislation now incur a maximum fine of £5,000 ( previously £2,000 ) . |
26 | If witnesses have already given evidence at the magistrates ' court the Crown Prosecution Service might be persuaded to discuss the impression that they made . |
27 | Criminal prosecutions are commenced either in the Magistrates ' Court if the matter is to be tried summarily or , following a committal before a Magistrates ' Court , in the Crown Court if the matter is to be tried upon an indictment . |
28 | They are allowed to read out agreed statements in libel cases in the High Court and to act as advocates in Crown Courts at committals for sentence or at appeals against conviction or sentence from a magistrates ' court if they took part in the original hearing . |
29 | As this case illustrates , it is a common mistake for the Crown Court to overlook the limitations on the permissible aggregate sentence in the magistrates ' court , set out in Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 . |
30 | The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes . |