Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a right to " in BNC.

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1 The reason why the Court found there was a right of access within Article 6(1) — that the rule of law required that the authorities ought not to be able to stand between individuals and tribunals — applies with equal force to a right to a judgment — that the authorities , including the courts themselves , ought not to be able to refuse litigants before them their judgments .
2 Media offences with a right to trial by jury
3 Clearly , the basis of paternalism — that decisions concerning a particular person 's fate are better made for him than by him , because others wiser than he are more keenly aware of his best interests than he can be — conflicts with the notion of a right to self-determination , whereby a person is deemed entitled to make his own decisions concerning himself , within tolerable limits , free from the interference of others .
4 The one-day-old normal baby is a potential person with a right to life that very few would deny it .
5 Applications for exclusion of a right to a new tenancy are almost invariably dealt with by the district judge without the parties attending .
6 The school took a determined line in support of its belief in a right to education for all and eventually convinced parents that ‘ standards ’ were far from suffering and ‘ those traveller/gipsy children ’ gradually became known and valued as individuals and opposition virtually faded away .
7 If they had , they could view relief as a right to be called upon when necessary .
8 STRATEGIES FOR THE REALISATION OF A RIGHT TO EQUAL CONCERN AND RESPECT
9 If that view were correct , it would appear to pre-empt Woolwich 's arguments in favour of a right to repayment arising at common law , though it is fair to say that this was not the position adopted by counsel for the revenue before your Lordships ' House .
10 Still looking at section 3(1) , I point out that ‘ any later assumption of a right to it ’ ( that is , a right to the property ) amounts to an appropriation of a right to it and that normally ‘ a right to it ’ means a right to the property and not a right in it . ’
11 ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner .
12 ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner .
13 Still looking at section 3(1) , I point out that ‘ any later assumption of a right to it ’ ( that is , a right to the property ) amounts to an appropriation of a right to it and that normally ‘ a right to it ’ means a right to the property and not a right in it . ’
14 This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’
15 Despite this the courts began to draw a dichotomy between administrative and judicial decisions , to take a narrow view of what constituted a judicial or quasi-judicial decision and to require this as a condition precedent for the application of a right to a hearing .
16 As the transcript of the judgment reveals , the Crown of Appeal was of the view that even if the appellant 's assertion of a right to be informed of the solicitor 's calls had been upheld , it does not follow that in all the circumstances of the case fairness would have required that the confession should have been excluded under section 78 .
17 But he withstood some solid blows and finally saw off Biggs with a right to the temple as the bell sounded to end the seventh round .
18 ( c ) Right to use services Prima facie a reservation of a right to the free passage of water gas and electricity through the demised property will be constructed as a right to use the existing system and will not entitle the landlord to introduce any new wires or pipes ( Taylor v British Legal Life Assurance Co [ 1925 ] Ch 395 ) .
19 Nevertheless , it is common that preference shares with a right to a cumulative dividend obtain voting rights if the dividend is in arrears for a specified period .
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