Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] hold that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we were to hold that the division of a final hearing into parts deprived the parties of an unfettered right of appeal , we should be placing an indirect fetter upon the ability of the court to order split trials . |
| 2 | Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation . |
| 3 | The leading authority was the House of Lords case of Re W ( 1971 ) AC 682 where it was held that when dealing with the question of withholding consent , the test was reasonableness , not culpability or indifference , and although the child 's welfare per se was not the test , it was relevant . |
| 4 | In both these cases it was held that the alternative of a manslaughter verdict ought to be left to the jury where the occasion justifies action in self-defence , or to prevent a crime , or to apprehend an offender , but where the defendant acts beyond the necessity of that occasion . |
| 5 | In the leading case of Lawrence ( 1981 ) it was held that reckless driving consists of driving which creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person who might be happening to use the road or of doing substantial damage to property , and that the fault element is that the driver either failed to give any thought to the possibility of such a risk or , having recognized the existence of a risk , went on to take it . |
| 6 | In one case it was held that because such disparity would result from the closure by an LEA of the only two single-sex boys ' schools in its area , whilst the authority permitted its two girls ' schools to remain , there was unlawful sex discrimination . |
| 7 | The attempt to construct such a right was built upon a number of different grounds , perhaps the most important being the analogy with the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution which protects people from unreasonable search and seizure , the analogy being drawn presumably because the Fourth Amendment is based upon English common law , particularly Entick v. Carrington , where it was held that as a general rule search warrants may only be issued under the authority of a statute . |
| 8 | The court in Malone also held , however , that even if an action in confidence does apply to telephone conversations , in this case the circumstances would be governed by Gartside v. Outram , where it was held that ‘ there is no confidence in the disclosure of an iniquity ’ , observations subsequently explained by Lord Denning as merely an instance of just cause or excuse for breaking a confidence . |
| 9 | Such an approach was adopted by the US Supreme Court in the famous case , Mapp v. Ohio , where it was held that to admit evidence obtained by means of an illegal search would make the constitutional guarantees against such arbitrary conduct worthless . |
| 10 | In short compass , it was held that someone who by reference to purely biological criteria is undoubtedly of the male sex at birth remains a male , notwithstanding a diagnosis of transsexualism , medical and surgical intervention to alter external sexual characteristics , and adoption of a female role or gender identity . |
| 11 | In Attorney General v Squire , it was held that obnoxious odours from pigs kept by the defendants , and arising from the number of animals , the place in which they were kept , and the food with which they were fed , were such as to create a public nuisance , and in Attorney General v Cole and Son noxious gases created by the defendant carrying on the trade of fat-melter were also held to be a public nuisance despite the fact that the defendant had carried on his trade , in a proper manner and in the same way for 30 years . |
| 12 | It was held that an offence under that section had been committed where the accumulation emitted offensive odours which interfered with the personal comfort of persons living in the neighbourhood , but did not cause injury to health . |
| 13 | In the case of Coventry City Council v Cartwright it was held that under s.92(1) ( c ) an accumulation or deposit of matter was prejudicial to health if it was likely to cause a threat of clinical disease or attract vermin , but did not include visual matter which could cause physical injury to people who walked on it . |
| 14 | In N.C.B. v Thorne it was held that the word ‘ nuisance ’ in s.92(1) ( a ) of the Public Health Act 1936 must mean either a public or private nuisance as understood at common law . |
| 15 | It was held that the words , ‘ like proceedings shall be had ’ , should be construed to give any person aggrieved the right to apply by way of information and summons for the penal orders available under s.94 of the 1936 Act . |
| 16 | It was held that about half this time would serve except in cases of great idleness or stupidity . |
| 17 | It was commonly held that the first lord to whom he had sworn fealty had the first call on his service ; but in some cases it was held that the richest fief gave the vassal his strongest obligation ; or again , that it depended on the circumstances , on which lord had the greatest need — a lord must be helped if he was fighting in self-defence , but his claim was less if he was fighting in someone else 's defence ; or the vassal might be expected to fight on both sides , that is to say , to provide troops for both armies . |
| 18 | In this case the person concerned was a pacifist , and pacifism as a philosophy fell within the ambit of freedom of thought and conscience protected by Article 9 , but it was held that the protester was not manifesting her belief in the sense of Article 9 ( Report of the Commission of 12 October 1978 , Application No. 7050/75 ) . |
| 19 | In MacTaggart v B&G Strump 10 TC 17 , decided before s 89 was enacted , it was held that such a payment was a capital payment . |
| 20 | This duly happened , and in the judgment published in November 1991 , it was held that the valuation of the estates should take into account the agricultural tenancies granted by the late Lady Fox to herself and her farming partners . |
| 21 | In particular , it was held that the law will imply a duty of care when a party seeking information from a party possessed of a special skill trusts that party to exercise due care , and that party knew or ought to have known that reliance was being placed on their skill and judgment . |
| 22 | Indeed , the House of Lords expressly approved the earlier judgment in Al Saudi Banque and Others v Clark Pixley ( 1989 ) 3 All ER 361 in which it was held that auditors did not owe a duty of care to a number of banks because it could not be established that the auditors knew either that the company 's accounts were to be shown to the banks or that the banks would rely on them in reaching decisions as lenders . |
| 23 | It is a Court of Appeal decision in which it was held that the use of the words ‘ mother ’ and ‘ care ’ in the title of a book Mother Care/Other Care published by Penguin Books — a serious sociological study of problems faced by working mothers who delegated the care of their children to others — was not a trade mark infringement nor a passing off , and Mothercare UK Ltd were not entitled to an injunction restraining Penguin from publishing , advertising or selling the book . |
| 24 | On appeal by the company , it was held that the duty of fidelity owed by Fowler and others to the company as former employees was not as great as that owed by an employee during the course of his employment . |
| 25 | It was held that an implied term of Mr Hill 's employment contract required his employer to obey the law and insure the lorry . |
| 26 | It was held that when making a standard hire-purchase agreement , the hirer merely hired goods and did not obtain credit from the finance company . |
| 27 | In Green v Burnett [ 1954 ] 3 All ER 273 it was held that an employer was guilty of ‘ using ’ , as a vehicle with defective brakes was being used on his business . |
| 28 | In the case of R v Spurge [ 1961 ] 2 All ER 688 it was held that it was at least careless driving where the driver took a vehicle on a road , knowing there was a defect such as defective steering or brakes . |
| 29 | It was held that when the first vehicle parked it was not done so ‘ as to cause ’ an unnecessary obstruction . |
| 30 | But in Harding v Price [ 1948 ] 1 All ER 283 it was held that if the driver did not know he had been involved in an accident the section did not apply . |