Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] magistrates ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Removal of the need for lawyers to attend court for unopposed adjournments in the Magistrates ' Court ; we believe this would give rise to a saving of about £8.6 million , with a saving on committal hearings of £2 million and a resultant saving in legal aid standard fees of £1 million . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Procedure is governed by FPR , r4.22 as with appeals from the magistrates ' court to the High Court . |
| 4 | Note that there is no power to transfer cases from the magistrates ' court direct to the High Court . |
| 5 | The room was a waist-high maze of rich wood panelling , staggered over several levels with the magistrates ' bench at the highest . |
| 6 | The plaintiff must then put in the notes of evidence from the magistrates ' court ( or the Crown Court ) with a r21 notice and apply for directions under r28 in order to force the defendant to call all the witnesses from the magistrates ' court to give evidence in the civil trial . |
| 7 | This may mean having to call some or all of the witnesses from the magistrates ' court or Crown Court and he may not just be given leave to put in the notes of evidence . |
| 8 | The Criminal Division also binds the Divisional Court which hears appeals from decisions of the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 9 | 1991 No. 1115 ) which by paragraph 2 provides that in civil proceedings before the High Court or a county court and in family proceedings in a magistrates ' court evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance or welfare of the child shall be admissible notwithstanding any rule of law relating to hearsay . |
| 10 | However , the advice and assistance scheme can be extended to provide some form of representation through the advice by way of representation scheme ( ABWOR ) which extends to certain domestic proceedings in a magistrates ' court , urgent court applications , and other proceedings , that is hearings before Mental Health Review Tribunals and prison boards of visitors . |
| 11 | For hearsay evidence to be admissible in proceedings in the magistrates ' court the proceedings have to be family proceedings . |
| 12 | Now the driver of the car had been traced and in a few minutes would be appearing at committal proceedings in the Magistrates ' Court on charges of dangerous driving , failing to report an accident , and failing to stop at the scene of an accident . |
| 13 | The Children ( Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence ) Order 1991 ( SI No 1115 ) makes hearsay evidence given in connection with the upbringing , maintenance and welfare of a child admissible in civil proceedings in the High Court and the county court and family proceedings in the magistrates ' court . |