Example sentences of "[noun sg] by the court " in BNC.

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1 Similarly in O'Brien in 1974 , it was the pronouncement by the court of a decree nisi of divorce which was held to revoke ‘ a wife 's implied consent to marital intercourse . ’
2 In a winding-up by the court , any disposition of the company 's property and any transfer of shares , or alteration in the status of the company 's members , made after the commencement of the winding-up is , unless the court otherwise orders , void .
3 Under s135 a company may , subject to confirmation by the court and if so authorised by its articles , reduce its share capital in any way by special resolution .
4 Following the meeting , the target will file the special resolution reducing its share capital ( subject to confirmation by the court ) .
5 A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court .
6 This is given added weight by the Court of Appeal judgement of July 1988 which applied the Race Relations Act 1976 to travellers .
7 The attempt by the Court of Appeal to prevent Touvier from coming to trial may succeed but the verdict has led to an alarming rhetorical question posed in Le Monde : ‘ Should not these crimes be judged , not in the name of a single people but of the whole of humanity … and should it not be in Strasbourg , under European jurisdiction and not in Paris or Lyon that they be judged ? ’
8 Police reopened the file on the 1975 killing after Stephan Kiszko was cleared of the crime by the Court of Appeal after serving 16 years of a life sentence .
9 This verdict may be the last attempt of this generation to keep intact the myth of a unanimously resisting France , for it is now under review by the Court of Cassation .
10 I venture to think that both the dictum and the decision are wrong , and that , as soon as they come under review by the Court of Appeal , will be declared to be so .
11 The court 's inability to determine those matters is not limited to the period pending the visitor 's determination but extends so as to prohibit any subsequent review by the court of the correctness of a decision made by the visitor acting within his jurisdiction and in accordance with the rules of natural justice .
12 It emerges from this case law that Article 190 requires that regulations , directives , and decisions should contain a statement of the reasons which led the institution to adopt them , so as to make possible a review by the Court of Justice and so that the Member States and the nationals concerned may have knowledge of the conditions under which the Community institutions have applied the Treaty .
13 The judgment in Arco preceded Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 , ( decided in December 1989 ) which , as now applied in Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 , precludes review by the court of the expert 's interpretation of the material at issue .
14 It was found that the decision of the GMC to prevent advertising in the press was a lawful exercise of the statutory powers conferred on it by s35 of The Medical Act 1983 , and that if a statutory power was exercised intra vires , reasonably and in accordance with the purpose of the Act conferring the power , ( even though it restricted the plaintiff 's freedom to trade or practice his profession ) the court could not review the exercise of the power on the basis that it caused a restraint of trade , since the exercise of the power in accordance with the policy and the purpose of the Act could not be contrary to public policy and any review by the court would be unconstitutional .
15 The statement that the tribunal has made an ‘ error of law ’ means no more or less than that the construction placed upon the term by the court is preferred to that of the tribunal .
16 Barely eighteen , wide-eyed and a little awe-struck by the Court ; receptive and responsive .
17 Presumably this could happen if the employee retired and sold the information or if he joined company X and yet sold the information to company Y. It may be a recognition by the Court that the attitude of the courts generally towards employees since 1913 has , in some cases , been over generous .
18 There should be personal service of a copy of the committal order on the contemnor by the court itself acting by one of its officers ( post , pp. 823G–H , 824F , 826F ) .
19 ( 3 ) There should be personal service of a copy of the committal order on the contemnor by the court itself acting by one of its officers , probably the tipstaff .
20 Where review is based upon procedural grounds the applicability of such procedural protection should not be placed in jeopardy by the court second guessing whether a hearing would have made a difference .
21 Further applications in committal proceedings where no error by the court at the original hearing is alleged should be dealt with by an application to the county court for a rehearing under Order 37 of the County Court Rules 1981 .
22 Thus the second safeguard is that he who wishes to serve the proceedings abroad must first obtain an exercise by the court of its discretion in his favour .
23 Instead the appropriate procedure is for the authority to apply to the court for leave under section 100(3) to make an application for the exercise by the court of the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court .
24 Since Parliament has not conferred complete autonomy on a 16-year-old in the field of medical treatment , there is no overriding limitation to preclude the exercise by the court of its inherent jurisdiction and the matter becomes one for the exercise by the court of its discretion .
25 Since Parliament has not conferred complete autonomy on a 16-year-old in the field of medical treatment , there is no overriding limitation to preclude the exercise by the court of its inherent jurisdiction and the matter becomes one for the exercise by the court of its discretion .
26 It is well settled law that the exercise by the Court of its discretionary power to validate a post-petition payment does not turn on whether the company was or was not damaged by the payment .
27 Part II of the Administration of Justice Act 1969 introduced the procedure universally known as the ‘ leap-frog ’ procedure to deal with those cases where determination by the Court of Appeal might not be the most effective way of disposing of the case .
28 Ltd. , sought determination by the court of questions arising out of a charterparty made between themselves and the defendants , Woodhouse Drake & Carey ( Suisse ) S.A. , relating to a cargo of rice on board the vessel Mary .
29 In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) .
30 On the other hand it was the submission of Mr. Collins for Wickes that the function of the undertaking in damages required of the council by the Court of Appeal was to protect the right of Wickes which flowed from the direct effect of article 30 , in the event of the European Court of Justice holding , on the reference to it of the Stoke-on-Trent case [ 1991 ] Ch. 48 , that section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 was invalid because it was inconsistent with article 30 .
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