Example sentences of "in the magistrates [noun] " in BNC.

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1 in the magistrates courts received immediate custody , and about 40 per cent .
2 If a resident is bothered by a noisy plant he normally must persuade his local authority 's environmental health department to take action which , if friendly persuasion fails , end up ultimately in the magistrates court .
3 ( FCA ) of having been found guilty of misconduct within the meaning of Bye-law 76(a) and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in the Magistrates Court was convicted of eight offences of being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of Value Added Tax contrary to Section 39(1) of the Value Added Tax Act 1983 was excluded from membership of the Institute and ordered to pay £250 by way of costs .
4 Will the Leader of the House arrange for an early statement from the Lord Chancellor on the workings of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 following the collapse yesterday in Liverpool and Gravesham of several hundred poll tax cases because the Government have so far refused to introduce a commencement order to allow computer evidence to be used in the magistrates court under that Act ?
5 The Government are urgently considering whether there is any need to change the law governing proceedings in the magistrates court to deal with problems in the effective presentation of evidence in community charge enforcement cases .
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