Example sentences of "in a magistrate ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The maximum fine in a Magistrates ' Court for breaches of ss 2 to 6 of the Act and of other sections relating to breaches of improvement notices , and prohibition notices or court remedy orders , has risen to £20,000 and all other breaches of the Act or subordinate Regulations and other relevant legislation now incur a maximum fine of £5,000 ( previously £2,000 ) . |
2 | The committal — this is a preliminary hearing in a magistrates ' court and little information usually emerges at this stage . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | There was no inherent or common-law jurisdiction in a magistrates ' court to order rehearing of a case which had already been decided ( R. v. Campbell , ex. p . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ( And never do this in court , not even in a magistrates ' court ! ) |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes . |
9 | 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) ) . |
10 | This applies whether an application for an emergency protection order is heard in a magistrates ' court , county court or High Court . |