Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] magistrates [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Removal of the need for lawyers to attend court for unopposed adjournments in the Magistrates ' Court ; we believe this would give rise to a saving of about £8.6 million , with a saving on committal hearings of £2 million and a resultant saving in legal aid standard fees of £1 million . |
| 2 | For males aged 21 and over who were sentenced to immediate imprisonment at the Crown Court , the average length was 20.5 months in 1999 , compared with 2.7 months in the magistrates ' court ( Home Office , 1990f ) . |
| 3 | There are also sittings of the Magistrates ' Courts dealing with juveniles . |
| 4 | Procedure is governed by FPR , r4.22 as with appeals from the magistrates ' court to the High Court . |
| 5 | However , it has been calculated ( Justices ' Clerks ' Society , 1992 ) that 57 per cent of such cases received sentences that were within the sentencing powers of the magistrates ' courts , and this suggests that a majority of these offences could have been tried summarily . |
| 6 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 7 | Note that there is no power to transfer cases from the magistrates ' court direct to the High Court . |
| 8 | Before he qualifies David hopes to be sent on an advocacy course so he can handle matrimonial and crime cases in the Magistrates ' and County Court . |
| 9 | The room was a waist-high maze of rich wood panelling , staggered over several levels with the magistrates ' bench at the highest . |
| 10 | With regard to acquittal rates in the magistrates ' courts , our data are too uncertain to draw firm conclusions as they are incomplete . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This may mean having to call some or all of the witnesses from the magistrates ' court or Crown Court and he may not just be given leave to put in the notes of evidence . |
| 13 | The Criminal Division also binds the Divisional Court which hears appeals from decisions of the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 14 | It is important to note in this context that courts have an inherent power to permit anyone to act as advocate , though this is seldom exercised except for the massive exception which at one time allowed police officers to act as prosecutors in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 15 | 1991 No. 1115 ) which by paragraph 2 provides that in civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court and in family proceedings in a magistrates ' court evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of the child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay . |
| 16 | However , the advice and assistance scheme can be extended to provide some form of representation through the advice by way of representation scheme ( ABWOR ) which extends to certain domestic proceedings in a magistrates ' court , urgent court applications , and other proceedings , that is hearings before Mental Health Review Tribunals and prison boards of visitors . |
| 17 | For hearsay evidence to be admissible in proceedings in the magistrates ' court the proceedings have to be family proceedings . |
| 18 | Now the driver of the car had been traced and in a few minutes would be appearing at committal proceedings in the Magistrates ' Court on charges of dangerous driving , failing to report an accident , and failing to stop at the scene of an accident . |
| 19 | The Children ( Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence ) Order 1991 ( SI No 1115 ) makes hearsay evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance and welfare of a child admissible in civil proceedings in the High Court and the county court and family proceedings in the magistrates ' court . |
| 20 | When we are required to respond to Green Papers , White Papers or Royal Commissions , whether we are negotiating over the Courts and Legal Services Bill or standard fees in the magistrates ' courts , the quality of our response must at the very least match that of other interested parties and groupings . |
| 21 | The Bar notes with concern the reduction in number of those eligible for legal aid and finds the proposals for the introduction of a system of standard fees in the magistrates ' courts to be contrary to the interests of the public and to justice and to be offensive and unfair to the profession . |
| 22 | This meeting notes with concern the potential for exploitation of junior members of the Bar with the introduction of standard fees in the magistrates ' courts and calls on the Legal Aid and Fees Committee to liaise with the Law Society , the Legal Aid Board and the Lord Chancellor 's Department with a view to agreeing a fair approach to fixing Counsel 's fees and making such practical arrangements as are necessary . ’ |
| 23 | The first of these , standard fees in the magistrates ' courts , is to be introduced in January 1993 . |
| 24 | The sections in the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 which give justices ' courts power to adjourn are : section 5(1) , adjournment of an inquiry into an offence as examining justice ; section 10(1) , adjournment of the trial of an information ; section 18(4) , the power to adjourn proceedings under sections 19 to 23 of the Act , that is to say the procedure which has to be followed where the information charges the defendant with an offence triable either on indictment or summarily ; and section 30 , a duty to adjourn the case to enable a medical examination and report to be made where the court is satisfied that the accused did the act or made the omission charged but is of the opinion that inquiry ought to be made into his physical or mental condition . |