Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun pl] ' courts " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that date , he appeared with the duty solicitor and an application was made under the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s. 142 to re-open the case so that it could be heard by different justices . |
| 2 | In our sample we had details of only eight Blacks , five Asians and 43 Whites sentenced in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 3 | An analysis of sentencing in the magistrates ' courts and in the Crown Court ( where the data were available ) showed that differences between the races in sentencing were not significant . |
| 4 | Two thirds of the suspended sentences imposed by the Magistrates ' courts were for up to three months . |
| 5 | A prime example this year has been the committee 's extensive concern with the prospect of standard fees being introduced in the magistrates ' courts , with the risks which that will bring to the most junior members of the profession . |
| 6 | A total of 135 cases were observed in the magistrates ' courts : 46 Blacks ; 7 Asians ; and 82 Whites . |
| 7 | It seems likely that the files of cases which had ‘ no further action ’ or were cautioned would be returned to the police quickly , so we inferred that those cases not followed-up had been tried in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 8 | About half of the Blacks and Whites were tried in the magistrates ' courts and one-fifth of the Asians ( see Table 3 ) . |
| 9 | Adult offenders who are convicted in the magistrates ' courts will normally be sentenced by a bench of lay ( meaning unpaid , and largely untrained ) magistrates , though in some of the larger conurbations lay benches are supplemented by full-time professional magistrates known as stipendiaries , who sit alone . |
| 10 | Between them they are responsible for handling 95 per cent of the criminal cases tried in the country though a few who are convicted in this way ( just over 4,000 in 1999 , which is 1.6 per cent of all indictable offenders convicted in the magistrates ' courts ) are committed to the Crown Court for sentence . |