Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the court " in BNC.

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1 The ruling , the first occasion on which a constitutional amendment had been overturned in the court , marked a defeat for Ershad .
2 The requirement in the Adoption Agency Regulations to counsel the parents specifically about all the alternatives to adoption , and to make sure that their views about these different alternatives are placed before the court , together with the fact that guardians ad litem and reporting officers will also be scrutinising this element of the work , should lead to more careful practice at this stage .
3 On issue the place , date and time of hearing are completed by the court and , unless service is to be effected by the court , a copy of the application duly sealed will be available for service to be effected by the party issuing the application .
4 In the first group of lead actions the position is as follows : ( 1 ) there are a very large number of major points of law which have to be decided on the manifold issues which arise under the various heads of restitutionary claim ; ( 2 ) there appear to be no or no significant disputes on the common issues of fact affecting the swaps cases generally , and indeed those matters covered by an agreed general statement of fact which has been placed before the court ; ( 3 ) there are discrete factual issues arising in individual cases , eg. , on change of position , since individual local authorities dealt with the money received under swap transactions in several different ways , which are variously relied upon as furnishing a change of position defence .
5 He also broke an undertaking which had been given to the court in his name .
6 Some support for her position has recently been given by the Court of Appeal in Olugboja .
7 Her case had been referred to the Court of Appeal by the United Kingdom Home Secretary in September 1991 after forensic evidence given at her trial had been called into question [ see p. 38445 ] .
8 The number of representations to the Home Office is running at 700 to 800 a year , but only about five of those cases are referred to the Court of Appeal .
9 In the second case , the Law Lords reinstated a £12,000 damages award which had been cancelled by the Court of Appeal .
10 The liability of club officials for injuries sustained by club members on the club 's premises has recently been considered by the Court of Appeal .
11 I have suggested already that neither assurances , nor probably even ‘ Declarations ’ , are deemed by the Court of Justice to affect the law as defined by the Treaty of Rome , as amended .
12 The tray this morning was about three feet in diameter , an average family size , and would have been carried across the court from the cook house on the head of one of the maids .
13 The commonest and most important of these are pre-sentence reports ( formerly known as social inquiry reports ) , which are prepared for the court by probation officers ( or by social workers in the case of some juvenile offenders ) .
14 Finally , the question arises whether this application should have been made to the Court of Appeal .
15 The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement .
16 This is the basis of section 3 of the Act which , of course , only applies after an order has been made by the court for the taking of evidence .
17 ( 2 ) A taxing officer taxing a bill of costs in accordance with a direction under paragraph ( 1 ) shall have the same powers , and the same fee shall be payable in connection with the taxation , as if an order for taxation of the costs had been made by the court .
18 Commentary : where an offender is dealt with for a breach of a community service order , he must be sentenced ( if the order is revoked ) in a manner in which he could have been sentenced by the court which made the order , if he is in breach of a probation order , the court may sentence the offender as if he had just been convicted of the offence concerned .
19 The 1975 Act had been accepted in the Court of Appeal as having been passed mainly to give effect to the Hague Convention , but that purpose nowhere appears in the text of the Act which was also designed to replace earlier United Kingdom legislation , notably the Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act 1856 in which the phrase ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ was used in a context wholly divorced from any international convention and which formed part of the law of many Commonwealth ( and common law ) countries .
20 A 19-year-old woman has already been bailed by the court on a handling charge and tomorrow a 22-year-old man will appear in court charged with robbery .
21 and certainly will if you 're reading to the court which was something you were concerned about .
22 Forms of particulars of claim are supplied by the court office to parties in person .
23 Copies or duplicates of a judgment or order are supplied by the court to any of the parties on payment of a fee ( see Table of Fees ) .
24 Although Re Sigsworth was only the decision of a puisne judge it has been approved by the Court of Appeal and extended to other statutes raising a similar question .
25 That exception to Wagon Mound has now been approved by the Court of Appeal .
26 The summons and copy are drawn by the court .
27 FOR THE first time in English legal history , judges ' decisions to close their doors to the Press and public have been challenged in the Court of Appeal .
28 In a letter dated 19 November , the Lord Advocate said that in Scotland ’ Civil actions are raised in the Court of Session or Sheriff Court Mrs. would have to establish first of all that she does indeed have a right to raise an action arising from the unfortunate incident of which she has complained .
29 ‘ Those extensive powers are conferred upon the court for the beneficial winding up of the company , for sometimes it happens that the liquidator is unable to obtain from unwilling persons the information which he requires .
30 It is to be noted that this proposition appears to have been doubted by the Court of Appeal subsequently in Francome v. Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd , where Sir Robert 's remarks were distinguished as relating to a case involving the detection of crime .
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