Example sentences of "the court had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a similar fashion , all the representative bodies of the police — ACPO , the Superintendents ' Association , and the Police Federation — were outraged at the creation of the Crown Prosecution Service in the Prosecution of Offences Act in the mid-1980s ; for one area of police power in the courts had been removed at one fell swoop and given to another arm of the executive . |
| 2 | Any investigation , such as a court would be obliged , in this type of case , to undertake , into the propriety of the internal procedures gone through in the course of passing a Bill would conflict with the modus vivendi in which Parliament and the courts had tacitly acquiesced since the celebrated Hansard litigation of the 1840s . |
| 3 | Meanwhile David O Selznick made a public plea for people not to judge Mitchum until the courts had done so . |
| 4 | The closure of Ulimwengu could have been challenged in the courts had anyone felt willing , or been at liberty , to do so . |
| 5 | Since the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , the Courts had been able to suspend a sentence of imprisonment , but not to require part of it to be served in custody with part suspended . |
| 6 | In his view , the courts had no power to question the validity of any act passed by both Houses of Parliament and given the Royal Assent . |
| 7 | But in the middle , cases would arise where the courts had to exercise their discretion , cases where differences of degree merged almost imperceptibly into differences of kind . |
| 8 | He then announced that the courts had found me innocent and therefore I would shortly be released . |
| 9 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 10 | Thus , recognition by Her Majesty 's Government was the decisive matter and the courts had no role save to inquire of the executive whether or not it had recognised the government in question . |
| 11 | Those propositions are all established by the decision of this House in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 which held that the courts had no jurisdiction to entertain such disputes which must be decided by the visitor . |
| 12 | ‘ has liberated English public law from the fetters that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves so far as determinations of inferior courts and statutory tribunals were concerned , by drawing esoteric distinctions between errors of law committed by such tribunals that went to their jurisdiction , and errors of law committed by them within their jurisdiction . |
| 13 | ‘ has liberated English public law from the fetters that the courts had theretofore imposed upon themselves so far as determinations of inferior courts and statutory tribunals were concerned , by drawing esoteric distinctions between errors of law committed by such tribunals that went to their jurisdiction , and errors of law committed by them within their jurisdiction . |
| 14 | Even if the courts had the resources to perform the first of these tasks , the latter involves value judgments of a kind inappropriate to the judicial function . |
| 15 | Long before that — at least as early as 1775 — the courts had laid down the general principle of law that a person can not bring an action based on his own wrong ( ex turpi causa non oritur actio ) . |
| 16 | The courts had a variety of treatment orders available in respect of the children brought before them , including placing children on probation and sending them to attendance or detention centres or to approved schools . |
| 17 | But before Read v. Lyons , the courts had gone further , holding that even a non-occupier may sue for personal injuries under the rule , and it is probably this development that their lordships had in mind . |
| 18 | For some time before Rylands v. Fletcher the courts had been concerned with the extent of a person 's liability for the escape of an accumulation of water from his land during the normal course of mining operations . |
| 19 | Secondly , although the Courts had historically tended to distribute pro rata to the total debt owed , there was no requirement to do so . |
| 20 | The Courts had unfettered discretion . |
| 21 | The first was that natural justice could have only a limited application in the context of the wider duties or discretion imposed upon a minister ; unfortunately the courts had applied those limited notions of natural justice to other areas where the constraints were unnecessary . |
| 22 | This , following the House of Lords decision in Scottish Insurance v. Wilson & Clyde Coal Co was , in effect , done by capital reductions even though the shares were irredeemable and quoted at above par , for the Lords decided in that case and in Prudential Assurance v. Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries in the same year , that the courts had to confirm the reductions since the preference shareholders were being treated in strict accordance with their class rights . |
| 23 | Before the Act the courts had , as a matter of sentencing practice , isolated two different types of affray . |
| 24 | In his annual report to the NPC delivered on April 3 Ren Jianxin , President of the Supreme People 's Court , said that the courts had " basically completed " all trials connected with the 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 25 | The courts had ordered that the prisoners be force-fed . |
| 26 | The authorities had claimed during the previous month that the courts had " basically completed " all trials connected with the 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 27 | The courts had been set up to administer a new penal code , unveiled on Sept. 7 , in which traditional written trials were to be replaced by public oral trials for criminal cases . |
| 28 | The scope of property includes property of persons who are not themselves visitors ( s. 1(3) ( b ) ) : ( b ) Before the Act , the courts had drawn a distinction between the occupancy duty and the activity duty . |
| 29 | Prior to the Act the courts had drawn a distinction between the occupancy duty , which was concerned with dangers due to the state of the premises , and the activity duty , which was concerned with the occupier 's activities on his premises . |
| 30 | Until 1989 the courts had said that a 'speaking " decision could be upset if it contained an obvious error . |