Example sentences of "a magistrate [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAGISTRATE set bailiffs on to two companies for being £26,000 behind with business rates — without realising the firms were HIS . |
| 2 | The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court . |
| 3 | In the past , it often seemed that the fines were too small to be effective — the maximum fine a magistrates court can impose is £2,000 . |
| 4 | Information relating to a particular employee , former employee or applicant to become an employee of , or a particular officer , former officer or applicant to become an officer appointed by a magistrates court committee or a probation committee . |
| 5 | Again it was a Magistrates Court . |
| 6 | Through a curious loophole in the present law Hart was able to plead guilty to motoring offences that can be dealt with in a magistrates court — and was jailed for only four months . |
| 7 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the view of the chief constable of west Yorkshire , Mr. Peter Nobes , that the upsurge in the taking of motor vehicles has probably occurred since the change in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , which reduced the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle to a summary offence triable only at a magistrates court ? |
| 8 | To start that procedure , the authority applies to a magistrates court for a summons . |
| 9 | ‘ Offences under the Act will attract a fine of up to the maximum £2,000 on conviction before a Magistrates Court and an unlimited fine on conviction before a Crown Court , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Establishments that do not comply with this code face heavy penalties and fines of up to £2000 in a magistrates court and unlimited fines in a crown court . |
| 11 | Mr Pilling said overcrowding should n't sway a magistrates decsion . |