Example sentences of "[art] local magistrates " in BNC.

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1 For most people their only experience of the law in action is likely to be the local magistrates court .
2 Earlier in Weston-Super-Mare Salvation Army leaders had been arrested for proceeding with a march contrary to a ban placed upon it by the local magistrates .
3 At Icklesham in 1838 a disgruntled individual , never caught , shot at the local magistrates and sporadic arson continued throughout the 1840s .
4 It was with great satisfaction that in June 1918 The Seaman could report that at Southampton a case in which British seamen had refused , by prior arrangement , to sail with Chinese , was dismissed by the local magistrates .
5 Since the development of schemes was left to local initiative and was dependent upon the co-operation of the local magistrates ' court , national coverage was patchy and the services offered were variable .
6 Easily hidden from the not-too-enquiring eyes of the local magistrates who were supposed to inspect the mill , frightening cruelties were inflicted by overseers whose sadism went unchecked .
7 Failure to observe that enforcement notice can result in a prosecution in the local magistrates ' court .
8 A COOKSTOWN man was remanded on bail when he appeared at the local Magistrates Court yesterday charged with handling stolen goods valued at £20,000 .
9 A COOKSTOWN man appeared at the local magistrates court yesterday charged with handling £4,500 worth of cigarettes and cigars knowing them to have been stolen on April 27 last year .
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