Example sentences of "court have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Each Inn of Court has a Pupillage Committee which manages to fix up all suitable applicants in suitable places eventually .
2 So fine is the distinction that in truth the High Court has a choice before it whether to interfere with an inferior court on a point of law .
3 The court has a discretion , and a record holder who would prefer not to hand over the file is entitled to refuse unless the party gets a court order to disclose .
4 However , in practice it appears that the court has a discretion to allow the case to continue as if begun under Ord. 53 provided this will not unfairly deprive the respondent of some protection which would have been enjoyed if the case had been begun under Ord. 53 .
5 On the contrary , I read them as dismantling an old Crown privilege and substituting for it a principle upon which , in certain limited circumstances , the court has a discretion whether or not to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown as law enforcer .
6 In that case the court has a discretion ( in order to avoid injustice ) to award damages at the higher level of £750 ( i.e. by reference to the market price at July 15 instead of the later contract delivery date of December 1 ) , Johnson v. Agnew ( 1979 H.L. ) .
7 The court has a discretion under s33 to override the s11 or s12 limitation periods if it would be equitable to allow an action to proceed having regard to the prejudice to the plaintiff of applying the s11 or s12 periods against the prejudice to the defendant of not doing so .
8 The concern for independence shown by the court in this case is an interesting development , but it arose in circumstances where the court has a discretion to exercise statutory powers .
9 The court has a discretion in the matter and is not obliged to order transfer , even if the relevant criteria are met .
10 Even in these cases the court has a discretion to order jury trial , although it will apply a presumption in favour of trial by judge alone if satisfied that otherwise the trial would be so complicated , costly and lengthy that the administration of justice would be likely to suffer .
11 The court has a discretion at two distinct stages of the procedure :
12 That Susan Court had a daughter ? ’
13 The Court had a discretion on a reference by the Attorney-General ; it had first to decide whether the sentence was too lenient , and then whether it was unduly lenient .
14 Even then , the Court had a discretion whether to increase the sentence or not .
15 Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that there was no rule that the Crown was exempt from giving a cross-undertaking in damages in law enforcement proceedings , but that the court had a discretion not to require the undertaking and that the discretion extended to other public authorities exercising the function of law enforcement in appropriate circumstances ; and that subject to the impact of Community law the courts should have exercised that discretion ( post , pp. 173D–F , 181G — 182B , G–H , 190D–E ) .
16 ( 3 ) That , although the court had a discretion to order rectification of the register on the grounds set out in section 82(1) ( a ) to ( h ) of the Land Registration Act 1925 , the section did not contain a general power allowing the court to order rectification of the register in any case in which it thought it just and equitable to do so ; and that , since the defendant no longer alleged fraud and his claim of non est factum had failed , the defendant 's claim did not come within section 82(1) and , therefore , the court had no discretion under the section to order rectification of the register of charges ( post , pp. 683B–C , 685E–F , 688E–F , 689C–D ) .
17 In re-opening the agreement , the court had a number of ways of ‘ relieving the debtor or a surety from payment of any sum in excess of that fairly due and reasonable . ’
18 The court had a duty to protect the liberty to publish , by ensuring that the existing ambit of restraints was not extended .
19 The courts had a variety of treatment orders available in respect of the children brought before them , including placing children on probation and sending them to attendance or detention centres or to approved schools .
20 A less absolute position is also adopted in Australia and in Scotland ( Ewing and Finnie , 1988 : 99–102 ) where the courts have a discretion to admit illegally obtained evidence .
21 Courts have a discretion , in special circumstances , to award an alternative remedy to damages for breach of contract .
22 : United Kingdom courts have a convention that judges exclude evidence and refuse to allow the cross-examination of witnesses when the authorities ( often on the decision of the intelligence services ) claim that reference to it would be ‘ prejudicial to the national interest ’ .
23 Some courts have a specialist probation officer who promptly channels those suspected of having mental health problems into the local service .
24 Instead under section 78 of the Act the courts have a power to exclude such evidence if it appears to the court that the admission of the evidence would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings that the court ought not to admit it .
25 It might be argued that the courts have a role to play in ensuring that groups which have been unfairly denied access to the policy-making arena or who have a genuine complaint about how that process was conducted , should be allowed to challenge the outcome of that process in the courts .
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