Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a magistrate [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Such an order can be sought from a magistrates ' court on evidence that a representative sample is unsafe and the authority does not need to secure a conviction in this respect . |
2 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
3 | An application for a warrant should be made to a magistrates ' court unless there are public law proceedings pending in the county court or the High Court ( APO , art 3(3) ) . |
4 | This applies whether an application for an emergency protection order is heard in a magistrates ' court , county court or High Court . |
5 | Petty Sessions or Quarter Sessions : a criminal court , as opposed to a magistrate 's court where only short sentences could be imposed . |
6 | Public law proceedings must be commenced in a magistrates ' court unless there are already public law proceedings pending in a county court or the High Court or the application is made by a local authority following a s37 direction to investigate made in family proceedings in either court ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) . |
7 | If her answers were unsatisfactory , their report would be taken to a magistrates ' court the next morning and a petition for her " reception order " drawn up and signed by two people — preferably near relatives or representatives of the family . |
8 | ( 2 ) Regulations shall provide that a legal or other representative against whom action is taken by a magistrates ' court under subsection ( 1 ) may appeal to the Crown Court and that a legal or other representative against whom action is taken by the Crown Court under subsection ( 1 ) may appeal to the Court of Appeal . |
9 | The Authority had originally been convicted in a magistrate 's court after it dug out a plant-filled ditch as part of drainage works on Alverstone Marshes SSSI , in the Isle of Wight , without the consent of the Nature Conservancy Council ( as required under the Act ) . |
10 | He thereafter committed a large number of summary offences and two either way offences , of which he was convicted by a magistrates ' court . |
11 | It can direct that the application be re-heard by a magistrates ' court or it can make an order itself which will then be treated as an order of the magistrates ' court for the purposes of enforcement and variation ( s94(9) ) . |