Example sentences of "[prep] a magistrate " in BNC.

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1 By contrast requiring a case to be stated , just like the appeal by way of case stated from a decision of a magistrates ' court or the Crown Court described in chapter 7 , obliges the tribunal to set out its decision and the reasons for it together with a formulation of the questions to be considered by the High Court .
2 Another possibility worth considering is taking articles with the clerk of a magistrates ' court with a view to this type of appointment .
3 There is also provision for ABWOR to be provided at the request of a magistrates ' court or a county court by a solicitor within the precincts of the court for purposes other than the provision of ABWOR , where the court considers that the case should proceed the same day and that the client would not otherwise receive representation .
4 Today , jury trials are out of fashion , because censorship of the media is more easily achieved by an injunction , granted by a judge sitting in secret , or by a directive from a regulatory body like the Independent Broadcasting Authority , or by the decision of a magistrates ' court .
5 have you arrested and taken in front of a magistrate .
6 For the age range 14 and under 17 , prosecution is only possible for a limited number of offences on the authority of a magistrate , and the extended care , protection and control procedure is used in most cases .
7 Decisions as to the disqualification of a magistrate or justice of the peace , in his capacity as a judge in a criminal court , are not directly in point , but may be helpful .
8 Six members of the PP had been arrested on April 6 on the orders of a magistrate in Valencia and questioned for a week about their involvement in irregular financial dealings to obtain political donations for the party worth 2,000 million pesetas ( about US$19,000,000 ) .
9 After weeks of violence culminating in the brutal murder of a magistrate , Rosario Livatino , in Sicily on Sept. 21 , President Francesco Cossiga had warned in an open letter to parliament on Sept. 23 that " whole regions of Italy are now controlled by the Mafia , not by the state " and that Sicily , Campania and Calabria needed to be " reconquered " .
10 DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " .
11 and Mr had to see the different people being , acting like a magistrate while he was there as he was district commissioner .
12 Any party to proceedings may appeal to the High Court against a magistrates ' court decision to make or refuse to make an order under the Children Act ( s94(1) ) .
13 The girl , who can not be named for legal reasons , was in court to hear the judge dismiss her father 's appeal against a magistrates ' order placing her in the care of London 's Southwark Council under the 1989 Children Act .
14 An application for a warrant of further detention can be made up to 42 hours from the commencement of the detention clock , in a situation where the 36 hour period runs out at a time when it is not possible for a magistrate 's court to sit .
15 Under the Act , persons may be detained for questioning at a police station , without charge , for 36 hours on the police 's own authority , and for a further 60 hours subject to successful application for a magistrate 's order .
16 ‘ There was sufficient evidence for a magistrate to issue this . ’
17 He spent half the year in the saddle , touring villages to collect revenues , dispense justice as a magistrate ( with the power to send miscreants to prison for up to two years ) and even to inspect opium dens .
18 It is fortunate also that I , as Mayor , have full powers as a Magistrate .
19 Instead the complainant , defendant , and witnesses had to come back and testify all over again , usually on a different day , when the official was acting in his capacity as a magistrate .
20 As a magistrate on the Nottingham bench , I had visited a number of English prisons and young offenders ' institutions during the weeks immediately before my visit to Mexico .
21 I mean Tommy who , who he retired just as a magistrate erm and a manager erm he is in this last focus we 've had you know the centenary , er Tommy and I .
22 Inspired by a sense of private and public duty , he served as a magistrate in Widnes for many years .
23 As a magistrate … formal application … prosecutor might oppose … gravity of the offence … likelihood of defendant absconding … interference with investigations … ’
24 He had offered his services to this Scotland Yard fellow in his rob as a magistrate , only to have them refused .
25 As a magistrate I see it as my duty to enforce them . ’
26 The great novelist , here writing as a criminologist , was evidently seeking to describe a social accompaniment of the transition to a capitalist mode of production , which to him as a magistrate was most evident as a problem of order .
27 My wife has , over a period of time , vowed to destroy me , my job , my life , and my status as a magistrate .
28 The judge told Cranog Jones that his plan had been ingenious , but warned him that as a magistrate , he would have a hard time in prison .
29 Farm secretary Anne Rose , of Ellerton-on-Swale , near Richmond , was sworn in as a magistrate at Richmond court yesterday .
30 As a Magistrate I think I should advise the Noble Lord , Lord Tebbit , that most crime is indeed local based , despite the prevalence of bicycles in this upwardly mobile society of ours .
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