Example sentences of "[art] defendant ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants ' actions were not detrimental to road safety and were exceptional cases as set out under article 11 of AETR , |
| 2 | The third defendant issued a third party notice against the plaintiffs ' accountant claiming an indemnity or contribution in the event of the third defendant being held liable to the plaintiffs , on the ground that the accountant had negligently failed to warn the plaintiffs of the risks inherent in the defendants ' transactions . |
| 3 | The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises . |
| 4 | A fire broke out on the defendants ' premises and spread to those of the plaintiff . |
| 5 | It originated in the defective condition of the electrical wiring on the defendants ' premises , but as there was no negligence on their part they were held not liable . |
| 6 | It is a cautionary tale for all women reading this widely covered case to appreciate what is the reality of the experience , even in a case where few are likely to believe the defendants ' accounts . |
| 7 | By a respondent 's notice dated 1 July 1991 the first defendant cross-appealed , seeking an order that on the taking of accounts and inquiry ordered to be taken by Chief Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 , the plaintiffs were not entitled to raise an objection to the defendants ' accounts on the ground that the items were unreasonable in amount unless the court had deprived the first defendant as mortgagee of relevant costs . |
| 8 | ‘ Whether … ( c ) the plaintiffs are entitled … to raise an objection to the defendants ' accounts … of the nature … specified in objection number 1 … namely , that the items were unreasonable in amount … |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the first and second defendants ' appeal against Mr Justice Vinelott 's order that the defendants permit the plaintiff 's solicitors to inspect and take copies of an affidavit in the possession of the defendants ' solicitors . |
| 10 | The second defendant was sent a photocopy of the affidavit and he sent it to the defendants ' solicitors for advice in the context of the wrongful dismissal claim . |
| 11 | Subsequently , in an unrelated claim by the plaintiff bank against the defendants , the bank sought discovery of the copy of the employee 's affidavit in the defendants ' solicitors ' possession . |
| 12 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 13 | On the facts the court had no clear evidence that the copy sent to the defendants ' solicitors was made by or on behalf of the second defendant . |
| 14 | The circumstances of the breach ( which followed a previous less significant breach ) were drawn to the plaintiffs ' attention by the defendants ' solicitors by letter dated 30 April 1991 as follows : |
| 15 | The plaintiffs ' accountants were Deloitte , Haskins & Sells and the defendants ' accountants were Peat , Marwick , Mitchell . |
| 16 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 17 | where the plaintiff was employed by the Ministry of Supply as an inspector of munitions in the defendants ' munitions factory and , in the course of her employment there was injured by the explosion of a shell that was being manufactured . |
| 18 | He agreed the team had infringed the defendants ' rights when they wrote a book on the case . |
| 19 | The risk involved in the defendants ' operations was so great that a high degree of care was expected of them . |
| 20 | The defendants ' operations were not destructive of telegraphic communication generally , but only affected instruments unnecessarily so constructed as to be affected by minute currents of the escaping electricity . |
| 21 | One reason for excessive caution on the part of magistrates when dealing with bail applications in the past was the lack of adequate information about defendants , their home circumstances , or the circumstances in which their offence had been committed — information which can help the court assess the defendants ' chances of absconding or re-offending while on bail . |
| 22 | Kerr L.J. , delivering the court 's affirmative answer , mentioned the Crown 's arguments , which had included reliance on Lawrence , and the defendants ' concessions that appropriation had occurred and ( in the light of Lawrence ) that the absence of the owner 's consent was no longer an essential ingredient of theft . |
| 23 | The scientists involved , including Douglas Higgs , the chief scientific officer for the Crown during the Maguire trial , had not told the trial that substances other than nitroglycerine on the defendants ' hands could have given a positive reading , or that " rogue " positive results could occur , nor had they disclosed this to the May inquiry . |
| 24 | ‘ Furtherance ’ was to be tested objectively by the courts as well as subjectively by reference to the defendants ' intentions . |
| 25 | I can well understand the plaintiffs ' sense of indignation at the defendants ' breaches of the injunction , and the court will have to consider very carefully all aspects of those breaches when the inevitable contempt proceedings are heard . |
| 26 | During the litigation orders were made for certain of the defendants ' costs to be taxed on a standard basis . |
| 27 | The plaintiff must pay the defendants ' costs . |
| 28 | When the defendants ' employees called to collect the carpet they presented a form for signature by the plaintiffs . |
| 29 | The court decision prohibits the destruction of books and records , and freezes the defendants ' assets . |