Example sentences of "the [noun pl] ' claim " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is plain that the solicitors ' claim was not prepared with proper care . |
| 2 | This section turns to the functionalists ' claim that stratification is inevitable . |
| 3 | Even when allowance is made for the authorities ' claim that many complaints are made for propaganda , this pattern is well-established . |
| 4 | In the upshot , £418 million were allocated against the authorities ' claim of £480 million , a reduction of 15 per cent . |
| 5 | However , the Right-wingers ' claims were dismissed by Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind as ‘ the stuff of tittle-tattle ’ . |
| 6 | Finally , in the event of a bank ceasing to conduct business , as a result of insolvency and its liquidation , the shareholders are paid back their capital contribution only after all the depositors ' claims are met in full . |
| 7 | Held , ( 1 ) that the order for disclosure was not an order made in a proprietary claim so as to defeat the defendants ' claim to privilege against self-incrimination , nor was it a claim relating to infringement of rights pertaining to commercial information within section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 351A–B , 352A , 355B , B–C , 360A , G–H , 361D–F ) . |
| 8 | The actions were consolidated , the plaintiff 's action standing as the claim , the defendants ' claim for the commission being the counterclaim . |
| 9 | As to the defendants ' claim for commission , even if a breach of fiduciary duty by the defendants had been proved , they would not thereby have lost their right to commission unless they had acted dishonestly . |
| 10 | The Economist referred to the device of ‘ calling in a High Court judge to write incredible economic nonsense ’ , but whatever view is taken of the justice or the wisdom of the report which recommended a considerable wage increase and which formed the basis of the settlement , the impression given was that the government had set up this enquiry to produce a report which would enable them to yield to the miners ' claim without total loss of face . |
| 11 | Both government and unions stepped back and set up an arbitration process to try to resolve the cleaners ' claim for a minimum monthly salary of 80,000 pesetas ( £450 ) . |
| 12 | Once attention is focused on observation statements as forming the alleged secure basis for science , it can be seen that , contrary to the inductivists ' claim , theory of some kind must precede all observation statements and observation statements are as fallible as the theories they presuppose . |
| 13 | Mr Hawke has embarked on a crusade to join the airlines in smashing the pilots ' claim , seeing it as a crucial challenge to the cornerstone of his government 's economic policy , the wages accord between government , employers and unions . |
| 14 | The strike was called off on Feb. 21 after all 20 of the workers ' claims were resolved in negotiations with the government . |
| 15 | ‘ The terrorist group included a youth of about fifteen with bleached hair and it is thought that glimpses of this boy were used skilfully to support the terrorists ' claims . |
| 16 | The terrorists ' claim to represent popular will in the Catholic community has seldom seemed less credible . |
| 17 | The arbitrators held that the owners ' claim failed and , at the request of the parties , stated their award in the form of a special case . |
| 18 | The General Commissioners upheld the taxpayers ' claims to allowances and the Crown appealed to the High Court . |
| 19 | Having regard to the true construction of section 9 of the Act , the House concluded that the refusal of the council to make a refund was not in accordance with the statutory intention and so affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 593 allowing the taxpayers ' claim for judicial review of the decision . |
| 20 | Nobody trusted the geologists ' claims that this was simply a series of experiments to see whether the underground structure was suitable in principle : everybody believed that the waste dump would be excavated under their patch . |
| 21 | Ever since Munro visited the area on his mammoth feat of cataloguing , and inexplicably rejected the locals ' claim of its 3000 foot stature for his original table of 283 Munros ( the figure has now been cut to 277 ) , Foinavon has been lurking in the wings . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal reached their decision with regret because as they clearly saw Mr. Tully is seeking to exploit the privilege against self-incrimination in order to frustrate the plaintiffs ' claims . |
| 23 | From this analysis of the statement of claim it is clear that all the plaintiffs ' claims against the third defendant are based upon allegations of fraud of one kind or another and that no relief is claimed on any basis which does not involve fraud . |
| 24 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 25 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the plaintiffs ' appeal from Wright J. 's order , holding that it was not open to the court to devise protection in substitution for the defendants ' privilege against self-incrimination , and that the plaintiffs ' claim was neither proprietary nor within section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 |
| 27 | The plaintiffs ' claim in these proceedings is based on allegations of a complicated fraud said to have been perpetrated by the first defendant Mr. Tully in conspiracy with his wife the second defendant , Mrs. Tully and with all or some of the other first 16 defendants . |
| 28 | I respectfully agree with his reasons for rejecting the plaintiffs ' claim for the inspection of documents and disclosure of information before trial based upon section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , upon the alleged proprietary claim and upon waiver . |
| 29 | Secondly , is the fact that there was no separate independent advice fatal to the plaintiffs ' claim ? |
| 30 | In order to understand the nature of the application it is necessary first to consider the plaintiffs ' claim against the third defendant . |