Example sentences of "court [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the issue of CPSU property , the Court ruled that Yeltsin had been correct to expropriate party property which belonged to the state , but that the Court of Arbitration would have to rule in cases where property ownership was in doubt . |
| 2 | In November 1990 the Federal Court ruled that women in the half-canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden , the last bastion of male-only suffrage in Europe , should be granted the vote at cantonal and communal level [ see p. 37867 ] . |
| 3 | Incredibly the Appeal Court ruled that Mathews was not necessarily lying in saying that Murphy was the driver of the getaway van but could have been mistaken ; and this third appeal was dismissed . |
| 4 | The Appeal Court ruled that Paul Rachael 's ( 7 ) seven-year jail term was excessive . |
| 5 | On Monday , the Paris Appeal Court ruled that M Touvier , intelligence chief of the pro-Nazi Lyons Milice during the 1939–45 War , and now aged 77 , should not face charges of crimes against humanity in connection with the murder of Jews and resistance workers . |
| 6 | However , on Aug. 16 the Swedish Supreme Court ruled that Mikhail Mokretsov , 19 , who had hijacked an airliner to Stockholm on July 5 , should stand trial in Sweden ( he had attempted suicide while in custody , and had been pronounced mentally unfit to face extradition ) . |
| 7 | The court ruled that Jampa Ngodrup be deprived of his political rights for a further four years after he has served his 13-year sentence . |
| 8 | The majority decision by the 15-member Supreme Court ruled that Enrile should be freed on bail of 100,000 pesos ( approximately US$4,600 ) , pending a decision on his claim that the charges against him were " non-existent " in the penal code . |
| 9 | Yesterday , the Court ruled that Campbell , 36 , sustained injuries as a result of the unlawful actions of prison officers . |
| 10 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 11 | The court ruled that Minnick 's confession , taken without a lawyer present but following several consultations between the prisoner and his attorney , had violated the defendant 's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination . |
| 12 | On Nov. 13 and 17 respectively the court ruled that Stoph , who had not been well enough to attend the previous day and had heart problems , and Mielke were too ill stand trial . |
| 13 | In reaching this conclusion the court argued that freedom of contract was a fundamental right , and that if parliament intended to empower a third party to make conditions which affected the provisions of a contract between others then this should be expressed in clear terms . |
| 14 | After years of expensive legal fees , the court revealed that Gallacher had debts of £787 , a massive sum for the times , and he was declared bankrupt . |
| 15 | The Court recounted that Nicaragua 's declaration had been reproduced in its first Yearbook with a note explaining the situation . |
| 16 | The court found that Papandreou 's government had failed to carry out a 1987 EC request that investigations be made into ITCO 's activities . |
| 17 | The court found that detectives had rewritten interview notes and lied during the 1986 trial . |
| 18 | In the judgment delivered on 7th May the court found that Section 79 had been correctly interpreted by the Law Society and that the Assistant Director 's decision could not be faulted in terms of rationality or fairness . |
| 19 | In response to a petition by Knesset member Avraham Poraz , the court found that Sharon should have sought approval for the construction programme from the Knesset . |
| 20 | The Court judged that Carter had been under no duress when he authorized the amnesty and could have resorted to alternative methods to end the coup attempt . |
| 21 | The Court assumes that failure to explain why it was not practicable to obtain a report from such a doctor will make the admission unlawful , and the same point is made by Professor Hoggett ( Mental Health Law ( 3rd ed. ) at pp.102–103 ) , who also stresses that the administrative arrangements for medical cover does not necessarily make it impracticable to obtain a recommendation from a doctor who knows the prospective patient . |
| 22 | The court noted that Mr Curtin had not exercised either the informal right of appeal against the Assistant Director 's decision which was available to him , nor his statutory right to appeal to the Master of the Rolls . |
| 23 | But the court says that deals are only allowed to protect rate payer 's money from fluctuations in interest rates , and ca n't be carried out for trading purposes . |
| 24 | As reported on May 28 , the court stated that Maj. Carlos Camilio Hernandez , a former director of San Salvador 's military academy , had ordered the burning of logbooks detailing the movements of possible murder suspects . |
| 25 | As to what counsel said there is a keen dispute which their Lordships can not resolve , beyond observing that there is nothing in the abbreviated note of the arguments in the district court to suggest that counsel went further than to point out that the immediate future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was highly speculative . |
| 26 | The coroner 's court heard that Private Macaulay , 20 , of Mossley Hill , Liverpool , was killed along with Lance Corporal Stephen Wilson , 23 , of Hull , and Private Matthew Marshall , 21 , of Welwyn Garden City , Herts , when a mine blew up their Land-Rover on a deserted country road in Mayobridge , near Newry , County Down . |
| 27 | The coroner 's court heard that Private Donald Macaulay , 20 , of Mossley Hill , Liverpool , was killed nearly three years ago when a landmine blew up a Land Rover on a deserted country road in Mayobridge , near Newry , County Down . |
| 28 | The court heard that Yafano has a previous conviction as a juvenile for cruelty to cats which involved skinning and stringing them up . |
| 29 | The court heard that Ellis was happy to allow police to inspect his personal finances . |
| 30 | The court heard that Nichol then drove her home before going on to another girlfriend , Leoni Hogg , whom he had previously lived with . |