Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [art] [adj] court " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |
| 2 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 3 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 4 | The magistrate decided whether to try a case summarily or to set in motion the process of committing it to a superior court . |
| 5 | He said if the second stage of his fight to prosecute Dr Howe failed he would take it to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 6 | He said that if the second stage of his fight to prosecute Dr Howe failed , he would take it to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 7 | Order 16 , r 10 applies , and in whatever manner a transfer may be ordered , the county court : ( 1 ) gives notice to all parties ( N 278 ) ; ( 2 ) copies all court records , has them certified by the district judge , and sends them to the High Court together with : ( a ) all documents filed ; ( b ) the transfer order ( if made by the county court ) ( N 278 ) ; ( c ) ( if legitimacy proceedings ) a certificate by the district judge showing the state of the proceedings and the steps taken ( Ord 16 , r 10 ) . |
| 8 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
| 10 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 11 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 12 | If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’ |
| 13 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |