Example sentences of "counsel for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Forest Eyre which opened before him at Windsor in September 1632 , counsel for the Crown was Sir William Noy , the Attorney-General , a learned lawyer determined to re-establish Forest rights which had long been forgotten . |
| 2 | In the course of the hearing , counsel for the Crown accepted that , if notice for the amounts payable as determined by the General Commissioners had not been served on the debtor , the tax had never become payable under s 55(a) , TMA 1970 and s 5 , TA 1988 . |
| 3 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 4 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 5 | Counsel for the Crown conceded , in our view rightly , that in a case where the prosecution has been completed and the judge thereafter refuses leave to the Crown to discontinue , it is counsel for the prosecution 's duty to remain in the case . |
| 6 | Counsel for the Crown argued that if the House of Lords so held this would mean that the foreign income of an accumulation trust administered in England and governed by English law to avoid taxation on overseas source income by the simple expedient of appointing one co-trustee resident abroad . |
| 7 | In the case of respondents whose arguments will be simply that the judgment of the court below is correct for the reasons given , counsel for the respondent can send in a letter to that effect in lieu of a skeleton argument . |
| 8 | Junior counsel for the appellant is then invited to address the court , followed by the two counsel for the respondent ( or Crown ) . |
| 9 | Alternatively , the speaking order can be : leading counsel for the appellant ; both counsel for the respondent ; junior counsel for the appellant ( who thus has the last word ) . |
| 10 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 11 | Counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the respondents instructed in connection with the present petition submitted to the Court of Appeal and to the Board a consent memorandum dated 28 April 1992 which makes this position clear . |
| 12 | Counsel for the yard relied on what Denning L.J . |
| 13 | turned to consider Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 and the submission made by Mr. Hamer , counsel for the wife . |
| 14 | Counsel for the local authority , Mr. Marston , and counsel for the guardian ad litem , Mr. Helfrecht did not argue to the contrary . |
| 15 | Based on papers submitted for review in camera , Judge Platt felt the government might have a valid claim that the subpoenaed documents were protected from discovery by the state secrets privilege , but counsel for the government seemed unwilling to accept the suggestion . |
| 16 | ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands . |
| 17 | Counsel for the defence presents the case for the accused . |
| 18 | Counsel for the defence addressed the jury and the judge summed up . |
| 19 | The advocate depute submitted that at the trial the view had been taken by the advocate depute and counsel for the defence that there was sufficient evidence to support the view that the two appellants were acting in concert . |
| 20 | Counsel for the appellant sought to put to the victim that she had a number of previous convictions for dishonesty and violence . |
| 21 | In the absence of the jury , counsel for the appellant submitted that the documents were inadmissible in the criminal proceedings . |
| 22 | That was done and counsel for the appellant told us that the disclosed documents had proved vital to the presentation of the appellant 's case . |
| 23 | Counsel for the prosecution invited the jury to decide between the suggestion that the officer had ‘ gone to the very depth of deceit ’ by imposing his attention on the woman or whether she had made ‘ a wicked and false allegation ’ . |
| 24 | Counsel for the prosecution then stated that he would offer no further evidence . |
| 25 | Counsel for the applicant advised that the examination be limited to the issue of the applicant 's fitness to plead and that the defence should instruct their own forensic psychiatrist to report on other possible defences . |
| 26 | I arrive at length at the present appeal , one striking feature of which is that , whilst not formally abandoning them , counsel for the applicant has not pressed with any vigour either of the grounds upon which the Divisional Court decided in his favour , namely that the Director was entitled to ask questions after charge but only after administering a fresh caution , and that the fact of such a caution would be a reasonable excuse for a refusal to answer , within section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 . |
| 27 | Cohen ( counsel for the defendant ) : Well , make it stronger and you will ruin the bank … |
| 28 | Mr. Lloyd , counsel for the defendant , has attacked this part of the judgment by relying heavily on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know anything about the power of attorney and her status thereunder . |
| 29 | A safe course to adopt if in any doubt is to present the argument for both sides — to turn yourself successively into counsel for the plaintiff ( prosecutor ) , counsel for the defendant , and finally the judge . |
| 30 | Counsel for the defendant … contended that the two agreements were , as he put it , " interdependent " and must be read together … |