Example sentences of "appeal [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Consequently , the ‘ law ’ on the subject of Musgrove v. Pandelis ( strict liability for petrol in the tank of a car ) may depend upon the number of appeals that the client is prepared to take .
2 The orders in the particular case were to be reconsidered by the District Court , and there was a broad hint from the Court of Appeals that the production of documents and the examination of witnesses should be ordered to take place not in Germany but in the United States .
3 Research conclusions were that SBATs suffered a serious problem of non-attendance of claimants , that it ‘ required telepathic powers to understand ’ the reasoning in written decisions , that the informality with which proceedings were conducted led to inadequate enquiry into appeals and an imbalance between claimants and the SBC 's presenting officers , which rendered SBATs partial in their decision making .
4 A report prompted by the growing concern at the number of planning appeals and the role of the Department of the Environment in overturning the decisions of local government on large and controversial developments .
5 This is the reason for the periodic letters asking for contributions to such appeals as the repair of Igtham Mote in Kent or for the restoration of Stowe Landscape Gardens in Buckinghamshire .
6 The question raised by the petition is whether an order made by the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on 4 October 1991 dismissing the petitioner 's action was a final order which entitled the petitioner to appeal as of right to Her Majesty in Council or whether the order was an interlocutory order against which there was no appeal save with the leave of the Court of Appeal or the grant of special leave by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council .
7 In civil cases a precondition to any appeal from the Court of Appeal to the House of Lords is the obtaining of leave from either the Court of Appeal or the Appeal Committee of the House of Lords , which consists of three Law Lords .
8 There was no decision of the Court of Appeal or the House of Lords on the point .
9 Since 1977 , no judge sitting in the High Court , or the Court of Appeal or the House of Lords ( as a Law Lord ) had formerly been a Member of the House of Commons .
10 For an appeal to the House of Lords , either the Court of Appeal or the House of Lords must give leave .
11 ‘ ( a ) as of right , from any final judgment of the Court of Appeal where the matter in dispute on the appeal amounts to or is of the value of 5,000 New Zealand dollars or upwards , or where the appeal involves , directly or indirectly , some claim or question to or respecting property or some civil right amounting to or of the value of 5,000 New Zealand dollars or upwards ; and ( b ) at the discretion of the Court of Appeal from any other judgment of that court , whether final or interlocutory , if , in the opinion of that court , the question involved in the appeal is one which by reason of its great general or public importance , or otherwise , ought to be submitted to His Majesty in Council for decision .
12 The decision is discussed more fully below , but it is of importance in the present context because the House of Lords explicitly disapproved of statements made in the Court of Appeal that a court could exercise a general power to consider whether the decision reached was fair and reasonable .
13 In Low v. Kincardine Licensing Court , 1974 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 54 , it was held to be a relevant ground of appeal that a rule of natural justice that no interested party should have an opportunity to confer with the licensing court outwith the presence of another party to the cause was broken .
14 In Genentech Inc. " s Patent [ 1989 ] , it was held , inter alia , in the Court of Appeal that a patent which claimed the practical application of a discovery did not relate to the discovery as such and was not excluded by section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977 even if the practical application might be obvious once the discovery had been made .
15 Indeed , it is conceded by the representatives of the parties to this appeal that an order made in the terms made by the justices was not open to them in as much as it did not impinge upon the parental responsibility of the parent concerned and impinged only upon contact between the parents themselves .
16 Their Lordships are unable to agree with the Court of Appeal that the judge was not entitled to make a finding that it was a material fact that the Perot family were interested in buying Vertigo as well as Caliban .
17 It was held both by Avory J. and the Court of Appeal that the payment in terms of the unlawful condition was not voluntary having been made for the purpose of obtaining the licence and could therefore be recovered as in Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 .
18 It was held by the Court of Appeal that the pilot 's drunkenness was so extreme and obvious that participating in the flight was like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation .
19 If a person is rightly charged with larceny , but the jury in reliance on section 44(3) mistakenly convict him of obtaining by false pretences , the Court of Criminal Appeal can not substitute a verdict of guilty of larceny under section 5(2) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907 ; for the verdict implies an acquittal of larceny , so that it can not ‘ [ appear ] to the Court of Criminal Appeal that the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of [ larceny ] ’ ( Rex v. Fisher ( 1921 ) 16 Cr.App.R. 53 ) .
20 It has been held by the Court of Appeal that the privilege against self-incrimination can be invoked in this context where , accepting the facts as alleged by the plaintiff , there is a reasonable apprehension on the part of the defendant that he might be prosecuted in the United Kingdom .
21 Thus in Reg. v. Pestano [ 1981 ] Crim.L.R. 397 it was held by the Court of Appeal that the credibility of evidence given by a witness inconsistent with a statement previously made by him was a matter for the jury to consider , subject to a proper warning by the judge as to the weight to be attached to the evidence .
22 It was held by the Court of Appeal that the bank was not affected by the improprieties committed towards the defendants by the director and solicitors of S. Ltd. , and that the charge was enforceable .
23 It was held by Avory J. and the Court of Appeal that the condition was illegal .
24 In proceedings against him by the Attorney-General it was held in the Court of Appeal that the charge was unlawful and that the defendant was under no obligation to pay it .
25 He further contends by ground ( 2 ) of his notice of appeal that the failure of the judge to perceive the limitations imposed on her discretion in the context of the Convention led her to reject the proposition that the elements necessary to the exercise of that discretion have to exist within the framework laid down by the Convention itself .
26 It was accepted by the Court of Appeal that the letter had to be construed as part of the written contract .
27 In the county court appeal lies to the Court of Appeal although an appeal against the decision of a district judge will be heard by a designated family judge or a nominated care judge of the same court .
28 A supervision order may be made pending appeal if the child is the subject of an interim supervision order at the time of dismissal .
29 But the small case load of the House of Lords and the expense of bringing a second appeal have produced suggestions that there is no need for the second appeal if the Court of Appeal were to be free to reconsider its own previous decisions .
30 In the instant case it might be said that there was a stronger case for allowing the court 's jurisdiction because there was no provision for any appeal if the Revenue was allowed to invoke s 485 .
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