Example sentences of "court could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear that Chancery was doing work which the Common Law Courts could not or would not do , and without which men 's rights could not be sufficiently protected . |
| 2 | Prohibitions were issued to prevent the Admiralty from dealing with any case that the Common Law Courts could deal with . |
| 3 | The courts could not create a ‘ surrogate right of appeal ’ by extending the High Court 's supervisory role through judicial review proceedings , even though it meant a trial might never take place . |
| 4 | These back developments known as courts could be found in most of the older city streets of my boyhood . |
| 5 | County courts could still , in spite of the 1869 Acts , commit small debtors to prison , on the principle that imprisonment was a penalty which should be reserved for what was in the nature of the crime . |
| 6 | Police courts could impose sentences of up to six months , and district courts of up to two years . |
| 7 | But yesterday the IAAF launched a fierce counter-attack against the 400m world record holder , insisting American courts could not over-rule their decision to ban Reynolds . |
| 8 | Moneylenders were registered ; subject to some conditions over the way they did business ; they were able to advertise in only a very restricted way ( for example , they were not allowed to mention interest rates or repayment schedules ) ; and courts could re-open their loans , setting new terms , if they charged excessive interest and the original terms were ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ . |
| 9 | The courts could impose a probation order . |
| 10 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 11 | In commenting critically on the proposed text of the Restatement , cited above , the Solicitor General stressed the strong policy of the United States procedural rules to secure efficient and effective discovery in all cases ; declared foreign reliance on judicial sovereignty to have an abstract quality , which did not elucidate substantive foreign interests , and which needed to be evaluated in the light of the established American principle that its courts could require foreign nationals to produce evidence located abroad ; and urged that objections based on a blocking statute should be greeted with caution and scepticism in any proper comity analysis . |
| 12 | If , from the Parliamentary Roll it appeared that the bill had passed through both Houses and received the Royal Assent , the courts could not inquire into what happened during its parliamentary stages . |
| 13 | The Protection from Eviction Act 1977 gave some additional protection since the courts could delay eviction . |
| 14 | Chief Justice Coke was of opinion that the courts could intervene if Parliament enacted outrageous legislation . |
| 15 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 16 | This , as many said at the time , was not a function which judges and courts could perform successfully . |
| 17 | With such guidelines , the courts could be given their traditional role of investigating the merits of disputes and helping the party who is right … |
| 18 | He agreed that the courts could intervene if the question was whether or not the Commission had acted within its powers or its jurisdiction . |
| 19 | The courts could intervene only if unfairness was such as to amount to an abuse of power . |
| 20 | To obtain an eviction order through the courts could mean a lengthy legal process , possibly entailing adverse publicity . |
| 21 | If inquiries , or some of them , were to be viewed in this light then the courts could help to devise procedural rules to fit this type of decision-making . |
| 22 | Or the courts could call the application of a statutory term a question of law , but accept that it does not have to have only one meaning . |
| 23 | Provided that the authority adopts a meaning which is reasonable or has a rational basis the courts could accept that interpretation , even if it did not accord with the precise meaning which they would have ascribed . |
| 24 | The courts could systematically substitute their choice as to how the discretion ought to be exercised for that of the administrative authority ; they would in other words reassess the matter afresh and decide , for example , whether funds ought to be allocated in one way rather than another . |
| 25 | The risk that , if the marches goes ahead and results in serious disorder is not one that the courts could be expected to undertake . |
| 26 | This would mean that the courts could take into account , as in other contexts where the expression is encountered , the purposes for which the notification is required . |
| 27 | The Government has been told that its appointment of temporary judges in Scotland 's courts could lead to miscarriages of justice . |
| 28 | The Government has been told by the former Lord-Justice General that its appointment of temporary judges in Scotland 's courts could lead to miscarriages of justice . |
| 29 | The courts could only intervene if the authorities ' decisions could be shown to lack " reasonable foundation " , it declared . |
| 30 | A TOKYO court ruled yesterday that the Japanese Education Ministry was within its rights to ban a textbook which detailed Japanese war atrocities , even though the court could n't fault any of the assertions made by the author . |