Example sentences of "[adj] magistrate ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 11 ) To transfer proceedings to another magistrates ' court or to a county court . |
| 2 | ( a ) Transfer to another magistrates ' court A magistrates ' court must transfer a case to another magistrates ' court if this would be in the child 's interests : ( i ) because it will significantly accelerate determination of the proceedings ; ( ii ) because it would be appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the receiving court ; or ( iii ) for some other reason ( APO , art 6 ) . |
| 3 | ( a ) Transfer to another magistrates ' court A magistrates ' court must transfer a case to another magistrates ' court if this would be in the child 's interests : ( i ) because it will significantly accelerate determination of the proceedings ; ( ii ) because it would be appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the receiving court ; or ( iii ) for some other reason ( APO , art 6 ) . |
| 4 | It prevents proceedings being transferred for this reason unless it can be shown that no other method , including transfer to another magistrates ' court , is appropriate and that delay would seriously prejudice the child 's interests . |
| 5 | Selection criteria were specified , including the requirements that the solicitor 's office be reasonably accessible to the appropriate magistrates ' court and that the solicitor have sufficient criminal advocacy experience during the previous 18 months . |
| 6 | The administration and financing of 842 Magistrates ' courts , presided over by about 18,500 lay justices of the peace , assisted by clerks who were mostly full-time and salaried , was in the hands of local Magistrates ' courts committees , with the aid of a grant from the Home Office . |
| 7 | The measures attracted criticism from the National Magistrates ' Association which on June 12 issued a document arguing that a more wide-ranging " cleaning-up of politics and the administration " was needed . |
| 8 | This , no doubt , was the reason that Nenna 's thoughts , whenever she was alone , took the form of a kind of perpetual magistrates ' hearing , in which her own version of her marriage was shown as ridiculously simple and demonstrably right , and then , almost exactly at the same time , as incontrovertibly wrong . |
| 9 | Six months later , the same newspaper produced a similar story from the same magistrates ' court : ‘ COME TO BED ’ PLEA BY GIRL , 15 ( ‘ A saucy schoolgirl sent a sexy message to prisoner [ NAME STATED ] . |
| 10 | The idea of a duty solicitor scheme to operate in a busy metropolitan magistrates ' court may seem to many to be a natural consequence of all the other paraphernalia of a socially conscious profession . |
| 11 | The administration and financing of 842 Magistrates ' courts , presided over by about 18,500 lay justices of the peace , assisted by clerks who were mostly full-time and salaried , was in the hands of local Magistrates ' courts committees , with the aid of a grant from the Home Office . |
| 12 | Since the development of schemes was left to local initiative and was dependent upon the co-operation of the local magistrates ' court , national coverage was patchy and the services offered were variable . |
| 13 | Failure to observe that enforcement notice can result in a prosecution in the local magistrates ' court . |
| 14 | Tribunals tend to be geographically accessible , because they sit locally , like both magistrates ' courts and the county courts . |
| 15 | 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 . |