Example sentences of "[conj] a magistrate " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an attempt to secure such a reduction , national guide-lines were issued in October 1990 , which identified a number of offence-specific factors that would justify a committal , but only where a magistrates ' court feels that its sentencing powers are insufficient . |
| 2 | This does not apply where a magistrates ' court declines to hear a case because it could be dealt with more conveniently in another court ( s94(2) ) . |
| 3 | A defendant 's costs order may be made in favour of an acquitted defendant by the Crown Court or a magistrates ' court . |
| 4 | For example , how would you measure if a plumber , a lorry driver , a teacher , or a magistrate had just performed a task well ? |
| 5 | ‘ Active citizenship ’ , according to the Conservative view , should include taking responsibility in the community through activities such as serving as a school governor or a magistrate , running Neighbourhood Watch schemes , and doing voluntary work of various sorts . |
| 6 | Some social workers try to teach their own customers some codes to use when speaking to a doctor or a magistrate or an official in the housing department . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Viennese police have found so many rare animals in the possession of eastern Europeans that a magistrate has asked for help from CITES in identifying where they come from . |
| 8 | As a safeguard , they recommended that a magistrates ' court should be required to sanction any detention after twenty-four hours and that the suspect should be legally represented at this stage , so that his or her point of view could be put across . |
| 9 | In his old age , Banks presided over the destruction of these fens , supporting the drainage projects of John Rennie , according to The Farmer 's Magazine of February 1807 , against ‘ a party of uninformed people , headed by a little parson and a magistrate ’ . |
| 10 | In another broadcast on Jan. 13 he disclosed the names of nine men , eight of whom he said had been arrested , and a magistrate on Jan. 19 formally charged five soldiers and four officers including Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides , director of a military school , in connection with the murders . |
| 11 | ‘ if a magistrates ' court inquiring into an offence as examining justices is of opinion , on consideration of the evidence and of any statement of the accused , that there is sufficient evidence to put the accused on trial by jury for any indictable offence , the court shall commit him for trial ; and , if it is not of that opinion , it shall … discharge him . |
| 12 | How would you establish at all reliably if a magistrate , politician , inspector , or teacher had made an error ? |
| 13 | For instance , if a magistrate dismissed most cases because he thought they were false , the proportion of thefts which were reported in his district might decrease because people would decide that it was useless to report them . |
| 14 | If a magistrate or other influential figure in a town was the owner of a building in which an excise office was then located , he too was vulnerable to pressure should he waver in his loyalty to the political interest which had given him this tenant . |
| 15 | AN Army officer accused of murdering his parents may walk free after a magistrate threw out crucial evidence . |
| 16 | These same tests should be satisfied before a magistrate commits anyone for trial in relation to a libel which has not appeared in a newspaper or periodical . |
| 17 | As well as a magistrate , Cranog Jones is a training officer at Smith 's Industries near Cheltenham , and today his former boss told the court he was truthful , without question . |
| 18 | Although fingerprinting was not officially adopted in India until 1897 it was Herschel who , when a magistrate in Hooghly in 1877–8 , instituted the first known system . |