Example sentences of "the magistrates ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bar notes with concern the reduction in number of those eligible for legal aid and finds the proposals for the introduction of a system of standard fees in the magistrates ' courts to be contrary to the interests of the public and to justice and to be offensive and unfair to the profession . |
| 2 | And in reality , as the Criminal Statistics for 1990 bear out ( Home Office , 1991a ) , less than a third of such cases would have been dealt with in the magistrates ' courts by means of a custodial penalty at all ( compared with just under two-thirds in the Crown Court ) . |
| 3 | This was true of 6.5 per cent of defendants appearing in the Crown Court and 12.2 per cent who were proceeded against in the magistrates ' courts in 1999 , all of whom could be said to have suffered a double injustice . |
| 4 | Conditions on the granting of bail may be imposed by the magistrates ' court on defendants against whom charges are pending . |
| 5 | Now the driver of the car had been traced and in a few minutes would be appearing at committal proceedings in the Magistrates ' Court on charges of dangerous driving , failing to report an accident , and failing to stop at the scene of an accident . |
| 6 | That solicitor attended on the magistrates ' court at 4.20 that afternoon . |
| 7 | The magistrates ' court at Fleetwood , Lancashire , was told that metal boxes used by BNFL 's Harwell plant were found in a scrapyard in Liverpool . |
| 8 | Note that a county court may transfer proceedings back to the magistrates ' court at any time before trial if the criteria for transfer are not met or no longer apply but the court must have regard to the child 's interests and the need to avoid delay ( APO , art 11 ) . |
| 9 | Where the Crown Court is dealing with an offender for offences for which he has been committed for sentence under Criminal Justice Act 1967. s.56 , whether they are summary or either way , the Court must observe the limitations which would apply in the magistrates ' court to the sentence for those offences . |
| 10 | Procedure is governed by FPR , r4.22 as with appeals from the magistrates ' court to the High Court . |
| 11 | Since the maximum term of imprisonment which might be imposed in the Magistrates ' court for a single offence is six months , the Act effectively took out of the hands of the magistrates the power to impose sentences of immediate imprisonment on the majority of offenders who had not previously been sentenced to imprisonment or borstal training . |
| 12 | applications to the domestic panel of the magistrates ' court for various kinds of matrimonial relief ; |
| 13 | It can direct that the application be re-heard by a magistrates ' court or it can make an order itself which will then be treated as an order of the magistrates ' court for the purposes of enforcement and variation ( s94(9) ) . |
| 14 | It also suggests the possibility that demonstrators fall foul of the law in the magistrates ' court in ways which may never afterwards be given thoughtful re-examination at a more senior judicial level . |
| 15 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 16 | Caterers may come into contact with the Magistrates ' Court in this way if they commit one of a number of offences relating to their profession , for example licensing offences , or offences under the Food Safety Act 1990 , or possibly offences under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
| 17 | The room was a waist-high maze of rich wood panelling , staggered over several levels with the magistrates ' bench at the highest . |