Example sentences of "in the magistrates " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suspect that the advisory committee will wish to consider also the fact that solicitors are able now to prepare and present cases in the magistrates ’ and county courts and in chambers in the High Court . |
| 2 | If the safeguards we propose are adopted , we are confident this can work as successfully as it already does in the magistrates ’ and county courts . ’ |
| 3 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
| 4 | At the time of writing , the first batch of prosecutions had collapsed in the magistrates ' court , on account of the long delay in launching the prosecutions against those involved . |
| 5 | They were convicted in the magistrates ' court , but appealed successfully to the Divisional Court on the ground that the question whether their obstruction had been reasonable had not been adequately considered . |
| 6 | It also suggests the possibility that demonstrators fall foul of the law in the magistrates ' court in ways which may never afterwards be given thoughtful re-examination at a more senior judicial level . |
| 7 | Every single criminal case in the country , trivial or serious , starts in the magistrates ' court . |
| 8 | Care proceedings are dealt with in the Magistrates ' Court and can result in children either being taken into care or being released from care . |
| 9 | Similarly prosecutions relating to water pollution and contravention of planning notices are dealt with in the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( 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 . |
| 12 | In 1971 ‘ Justice ’ , a group of liberal lawyers , published a booklet entitled The Unrepresented Defendant in the Magistrates ' Courts . |
| 13 | Criminal legal aid in the magistrates ' courts cost £14 million in 1976 , rising to £16¾ million the following year , an increase of 17 per cent . |
| 14 | Since the maximum term of imprisonment which might be imposed in the Magistrates ' court for a single offence is six months , the Act effectively took out of the hands of the magistrates the power to impose sentences of immediate imprisonment on the majority of offenders who had not previously been sentenced to imprisonment or borstal training . |
| 15 | It is important to note in this context that courts have an inherent power to permit anyone to act as advocate , though this is seldom exercised except for the massive exception which at one time allowed police officers to act as prosecutors in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 16 | When prosecution for pollution does take place , it is in the magistrates ' court , where it shares the stage with licensing applications and speeding motorists . |
| 17 | Criminal prosecutions are commenced either in the Magistrates ' Court if the matter is to be tried summarily or , following a committal before a Magistrates ' Court , in the Crown Court if the matter is to be tried upon an indictment . |
| 18 | It is worthy of note that in the Magistrates ' Court the separate functions of the judge and jury are both performed by the magistrates . |
| 19 | In this chapter we will chiefly be concerned with three of the most crucial sets of decisions for which the courts are responsible : remand decisions ( whether accused persons are freed on bail or remanded in custody ) ; jurisdiction decisions ( whether they are tried in the magistrates ' court or committed for trial in the Crown Court ) ; and sentencing decisions . |
| 20 | This was true of 6.5 per cent of defendants appearing in the Crown Court and 12.2 per cent who were proceeded against in the magistrates ' courts in 1999 , all of whom could be said to have suffered a double injustice . |
| 21 | But even in relation to those who are ultimately convicted , the fact that many of them go on to receive a non-custodial sentence — in 1999 the figures were 19.4 per cent in the Crown Court and 25.9 per cent in the magistrates ' courts — calls into question the need and justification for pre-trial detention on the present scale , particularly in view of the deplorable conditions in which most remand prisoners are held . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And in reality , as the Criminal Statistics for 1990 bear out ( Home Office , 1991a ) , less than a third of such cases would have been dealt with in the magistrates ' courts by means of a custodial penalty at all ( compared with just under two-thirds in the Crown Court ) . |
| 25 | This revealed that the proportionate use of custody in the Crown Court was five times greater than in the magistrates ' court , and that the average length of prison sentence was three times as long . |
| 26 | For males aged 21 and over who were sentenced to immediate imprisonment at the Crown Court , the average length was 20.5 months in 1999 , compared with 2.7 months in the magistrates ' court ( Home Office , 1990f ) . |
| 27 | If a set of presumptive penalties were to be constructed on the basis of Court of Appeal recommendations , for example , this would clearly have disastrous implications for sentencing levels elsewhere in the system , and particularly in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 28 | It emerged that in the magistrates ' courts the distribution of sentences did not differ greatly between Blacks and Whites , and this was also the case in the Crown Court . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | About half of the Blacks and Whites were tried in the magistrates ' courts and one-fifth of the Asians ( see Table 3 ) . |