Example sentences of "from the courts " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There 's a fair amount of to-ing and fro-ing from the courts ’ , explains Mace , ‘ and I like to maintain my contact with the live action on court , as well as the monitored information in the press room .
2 Many , despite the seri ous injuries they have suffered , are completely barred from the courts .
3 Rivals got a stay order from the courts , though after a backroom deal in mid-March the government got its way .
4 The more highly convicted and at-risk profile of the AEC sample was also reflected by the fact that whereas nationally as many as 80 per cent of the persons commencing probation in 1988 had no additional requirements made to their probation orders , only six per cent of the probationers undertaking the AEC received this traditional type of probation order from the courts .
5 However , before the sale can go ahead the Trust must obtain permission from the courts to modify the will of the Trust 's founder , Sir Henry Wellcome .
6 One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services .
7 At present , parents can be held responsible for the misdemeanors of their children , yet they are not allowed to chastise their children for fear of reprisals from the courts .
8 Visitors to Wimbledon , and local residents , will this year , for the first time , be able to tune into Radio Wimbledon , a special radio station providing all the up to date news on The Championships , weather news reports from the courts , interviews , order of play , results , even the latest weather and traffic information .
9 Adult prisons ( for those aged 21 or over ) are divided into ‘ local ’ prisons , which receive people from the courts , whether on remand or at the start of a sentence ( and where short sentences may be served in their entirety ) ; closed ‘ training ’ prisons of which Maidstone is one , and ‘ open ’ prisons , which have a minimum of security and are for prisoners perceived as posing no real risk to the public .
10 In our study year there were forty-five murder trials reported from the courts where some sexual component was raised as an issue , even if to be denied .
11 Princes derived profit solely from the courts on their own manorial lands or from those areas whose castellans were held in sufficient subordination to render dues to their lords .
12 Thus to bar from the courts data that have not appeared in a peer reviewed journal could be foolhardy .
13 This question is made somewhat difficult to answer because one of the effects of the emphasis on the facts and merits of the particular case in Fleet Street Casuals is that the issue of standing now often receives little or no attention from the courts and is sometimes the subject of concessions by the respondent .
14 In the following year the public were lectured from the courts on the duties of parenthood when , expressing himself ‘ perfectly satisfied that these crimes can be traced to neglect of parents ’ , the Recorder of Bradford struck the familiar harmonies of discontent : ‘ Parents of this time , unfortunately , do not take sufficient care in bringing up their children .
15 Quite apart from the courts ' power to order the taking of evidence out of the jurisdiction , which is considered below , there are a number of procedures available during the pre-trial phase which lead to the exposure of information or material relevant to the matter in hand .
16 The Home Office is not alone among government departments in facing challenge from the courts .
17 Whereas the increase up to and including 1946 was not attributed to more people being sent to prison each year , thereafter the pattern changed with a substantial rise in the number of convicted and sentenced offenders being received from the courts .
18 There was page after page of it , brought back from the courts and council meetings , filling the notebooks stacked on his shared desk .
19 Engels ' emphasis is primarily upon ‘ the piles of debris , the refuse , filth and offal from the courts ’ , coupled with derelict , overcrowded conditions , each house ‘ packed close behind its neighbour … all black , smoky , crumbling , ancient , with broken panes and window-frames ’ .
20 Under the provision of the Companies Act 1989 the Secretary of State has powers to seek a ruling from the courts , under a new civil procedure , on whether a company 's accounts comply with the provisions of the Companies Act 1985 .
21 Concealment for the purpose of getting at the truth received encouragement from the courts in their refusal .
22 Experience suggests that the fear that discovery of faults in investigations would result in adverse criticism from the courts or the media , and in public clamour for scapegoats , causes considerable difficulty .
23 If in a potentially life threatening situation or one in which irreparable damage to the patient 's health is to be anticipated , doctors or hospital authorities are faced with a refusal by an adult patient to accept essential treatment and they have real doubts as to the validity of that refusal , they should in the public interest , not to mention that of their patient , at once seek a declaration from the courts as to whether the proposed treatment would or would not be lawful .
24 So the medical profession , in the future as in the past , must bear the responsibility unless it is possible to obtain a decision from the courts .
25 to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred
26 So children sent from the courts , whether they were offenders or offended against , can now be placed in whatever type of residential care is deemed most appropriate to their needs at the discretion of the social workers of the local authority .
27 Essentially the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act involved a transfer of responsibility from the courts to the local authorities .
28 Mentally disordered offenders who have been admitted to ordinary hospitals from the courts , or from prison , or from the Special Hospitals such as Broadmoor may require such a period of care in conditions of medium security .
29 Of the three epithets employed by the section , ‘ insulting ’ has received most attention from the courts .
30 To date , the number of cases taken in this fashion are very few and there has been very little guidance from the Courts as to the ambit of the provision .
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