Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' court " in BNC.
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| 1 | 5–9- " There was laid on the table a minute of the Deacons ' Court of date from which it appeared that the subject of the conversion of the Schoolhouse into dwelling houses had been under consideration , and that the Court had agreed to submit the proposal to the congregation for its opinion . " |
| 2 | Sir Roger put the ball back firmly in the booksellers ' court . |
| 3 | Although by rights she was not eligible , Mozart not having fulfilled his qualifying period of 10 years ' court service , the emperor was inclined to be generous . |
| 4 | Using your hands and arms , you have to get the ball ‘ over the net ’ to hopefully land in your opponents ' court . |
| 5 | The ball was , so to speak , back in the industrialists ' court — the cost of the public services had to be disproportionately born by private capital which resulted in a reduction in business profitability . |
| 6 | He is highly respected and is Anthony Herbert 's assistant judge in the players ' court . |
| 7 | Even if the matter were still proceeding before the justices ' court , either for the purposes of committal for trial or for trial of an information , it would be my opinion that neither section 5(1) nor section 10(1) of the Act of 1980 would apply to give the justice hearing a proceeding under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 a power to adjourn that proceeding . |
| 8 | The Serjeants ' Inn Coffee House was opposite the Insolvent Debtors ' Court , off Fleet Street , and ceased business in 1838 . |
| 9 | Mr Notice , 32 , of Welling , Kent , undefeated before detached retinas forced him to retire from the ring , appeared before a special magistrates ' court in Reigate , Surrey . |
| 10 | Nigel Profitt , 21 , of Erdington , Birmingham , and three other City supporters , were told by John Pryce , chairing a magistrates ' court hearing yesterday : ‘ You are nothing more than looters . |
| 11 | It is expected that the case will be heard at Folkestone Magistrates ' Court in Kent on 16 November . |
| 12 | Magistrates ' court R v Holyhead Justices , Ex parte Rowlands ; QBD ( Mann LJ , Waterhouse J ) ; 31 Aug 1989 An objection to witness statements tendered by the prosecution being admitted in evidence should be made according to the procedure in s 102 of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 . |
| 13 | The Crown Prosecution Service announced at Tower Bridge Magistrates ' Court that it was not continuing with a case against John Graham , 53 , a lift engineer . |
| 14 | If these steps are not taken , the council can take the offender to the magistrates ' court and a fine of up to £2,000 may be payable — and the fine may be repeated on a continuing basis if the notice is still not complied with . |
| 15 | Dennis McGookin , aged 33 , of County Londonderry , appeared at a special sitting of Belfast magistrates ' court with two other men after being arrested by detectives investigating alleged security leaks to loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 16 | Lord Justice Watkins said the Divisional Court could review an order of the magistrates ' court made for the purpose of preventing an abuse of its process and had done so on a number of occasions . |
| 17 | If the Lords rule in favour of the two women who have brought the test case , hundreds of other cases that are pending in Newbury magistrates ' court will have to be dropped and thousands of earlier prosecutions might become subject to compensation claims . |
| 18 | Two thousand supporters marched to the Belfast Magistrates ' Court with the accused who were all found guilty . |
| 19 | Mr Rodmell , 36 , a former policeman , of Strawberry Gardens , Wallsend , Newcastle ; John Wright , 32 , of Ridley Avenue , Wallsend ; Colin Hutton , 46 , and Andrew Hutton , 35 , both from Horsham Grove , North Shields , had denied the charge at Alnwick magistrates ' court . |
| 20 | They are allowed to read out agreed statements in libel cases in the High Court and to act as advocates in Crown Courts at committals for sentence or at appeals against conviction or sentence from a magistrates ' court if they took part in the original hearing . |
| 21 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 22 | The coroner 's Proceedings were once again opened at Reading Magistrates ' Court in Valpy Street , the coroner 's court deemed too small for such a case . |
| 23 | In this instance , the disturbances were precipitated when four black men were refused bail at Liverpool Magistrates ' Court . |
| 24 | The police were required to bring the detained person before a magistrates ' court ‘ as soon as practicable ’ after arrest . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For the police may apply to a magistrates ' court which can issue a ‘ warrant of further detention ’ if it reasonably believes this course of action to be justified . |
| 27 | On the following day the appellant would have to be taken before the magistrates ' court : section 46 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Conditions on the granting of bail may be imposed by the magistrates ' court on defendants against whom charges are pending . |
| 30 | 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 . |