Example sentences of "a [noun pl] ' court " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Profitt , 21 , of Erdington , Birmingham , and three other City supporters , were told by John Pryce , chairing a magistrates ' court hearing yesterday : ‘ You are nothing more than looters . |
| 2 | They are allowed to read out agreed statements in libel cases in the High Court and to act as advocates in Crown Courts at committals for sentence or at appeals against conviction or sentence from a magistrates ' court if they took part in the original hearing . |
| 3 | The police were required to bring the detained person before a magistrates ' court ‘ as soon as practicable ’ after arrest . |
| 4 | As a safeguard , they recommended that a magistrates ' court should be required to sanction any detention after twenty-four hours and that the suspect should be legally represented at this stage , so that his or her point of view could be put across . |
| 5 | For the police may apply to a magistrates ' court which can issue a ‘ warrant of further detention ’ if it reasonably believes this course of action to be justified . |
| 6 | The maximum fine in a Magistrates ' Court for breaches of ss 2 to 6 of the Act and of other sections relating to breaches of improvement notices , and prohibition notices or court remedy orders , has risen to £20,000 and all other breaches of the Act or subordinate Regulations and other relevant legislation now incur a maximum fine of £5,000 ( previously £2,000 ) . |
| 7 | The committal — this is a preliminary hearing in a magistrates ' court and little information usually emerges at this stage . |
| 8 | If her answers were unsatisfactory , their report would be taken to a magistrates ' court the next morning and a petition for her " reception order " drawn up and signed by two people — preferably near relatives or representatives of the family . |
| 9 | By contrast requiring a case to be stated , just like the appeal by way of case stated from a decision of a magistrates ' court or the Crown Court described in chapter 7 , obliges the tribunal to set out its decision and the reasons for it together with a formulation of the questions to be considered by the High Court . |
| 10 | Criminal prosecutions are commenced either in the Magistrates ' Court if the matter is to be tried summarily or , following a committal before a Magistrates ' Court , in the Crown Court if the matter is to be tried upon an indictment . |
| 11 | In an attempt to secure such a reduction , national guide-lines were issued in October 1990 , which identified a number of offence-specific factors that would justify a committal , but only where a magistrates ' court feels that its sentencing powers are insufficient . |
| 12 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 13 | There was no inherent or common-law jurisdiction in a magistrates ' court to order rehearing of a case which had already been decided ( R. v. Campbell , ex. p . |
| 14 | He thereafter committed a large number of summary offences and two either way offences , of which he was convicted by a magistrates ' court . |
| 15 | Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 allowed a magistrates ' court to pass an aggregate of 12 months ' imprisonment for two or more either way offences . |
| 16 | Facts : the appellant pleaded guilty before a magistrates ' court in April , 1990 to an offence of receiving and was ordered to perform 180 hours community service . |
| 17 | 1991 No. 1115 ) which by paragraph 2 provides that in civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court and in family proceedings in a magistrates ' court evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of the child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay . |
| 18 | There is an appeal against a notice to a magistrates ' court , but there is no express provision for representations prior to service of the notice . |
| 19 | There is an appeal against a notice to a magistrates ' court , but there is no express provision for representations prior to service of the notice . |
| 20 | ‘ 19A(1) In any criminal proceedings — ( a ) the Court of Appeal ; ( b ) the Crown Court ; or ( c ) a magistrates ' court may disallow , or ( as the case may be ) order the legal or other representative concerned to meet , the whole of any wasted costs or such part of them as may be determined in accordance with regulations . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Regulations shall provide that a legal or other representative against whom action is taken by a magistrates ' court under subsection ( 1 ) may appeal to the Crown Court and that a legal or other representative against whom action is taken by the Crown Court under subsection ( 1 ) may appeal to the Court of Appeal . |
| 22 | ‘ if a magistrates ' court inquiring into an offence as examining justices is of opinion , on consideration of the evidence and of any statement of the accused , that there is sufficient evidence to put the accused on trial by jury for any indictable offence , the court shall commit him for trial ; and , if it is not of that opinion , it shall … discharge him . |
| 23 | ( And never do this in court , not even in a magistrates ' court ! ) |
| 24 | Another possibility worth considering is taking articles with the clerk of a magistrates ' court with a view to this type of appointment . |
| 25 | There is also provision for ABWOR to be provided at the request of a magistrates ' court or a county court by a solicitor within the precincts of the court for purposes other than the provision of ABWOR , where the court considers that the case should proceed the same day and that the client would not otherwise receive representation . |
| 26 | A defendant 's costs order may be made in favour of an acquitted defendant by the Crown Court or a magistrates ' court . |
| 27 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
| 28 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
| 29 | However , the advice and assistance scheme can be extended to provide some form of representation through the advice by way of representation scheme ( ABWOR ) which extends to certain domestic proceedings in a magistrates ' court , urgent court applications , and other proceedings , that is hearings before Mental Health Review Tribunals and prison boards of visitors . |
| 30 | The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes . |