Example sentences of "court may " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a burgeoning caseload , too few judges , and increasing delays the courts may be tempted to block the further development of the law and to cut back on the advances already made . |
| 2 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 3 | With regard to crimes that are known about , the police and courts may be more lenient with female offenders . |
| 4 | If she subsequently changes her mind and refuses to hand the child over , the courts may allow her to keep the child , and in practice she will be unlikely to return any money , even if she were legally required to do so . |
| 5 | The case is significant in that it establishes the principle that the courts may refer , subject to specific criteria , to Parliamentary material when construing legislation . |
| 6 | Finally , the proposals would create legal problems , despite statements that the APB makes to the contrary : the courts may interpret any references to uncertainties in an audit report as a form of qualification which requires a statement by an auditor , under s 271(4) of the Companies Act 1985 , about whether the matter is material to assessing the legality of the dividend . |
| 7 | Gold allowed the easy storage of wealth because of the high ratio of value to bulk , and its being minted by royal and ecclesiastical courts may reflect the need to administer justice , maintain officials and finance commerce , and goes hand-in-hand with the development of written law and taxation ; in the oldest Kentish laws , fines were listed in gold ‘ shillings ’ and in silver . |
| 8 | Courts may be important less for what they do than for what they are : their existence makes social workers pause before they apply for an order . |
| 9 | A reflection of clerical involvement in the world of the courts may be glimpsed in the large stained-glass window given to York Minster by Master Peter de Dene , king 's clerk , probably between 1307 and 1310 ( see plate 2.6 ) . |
| 10 | There are some crimes for which women can not be convicted ( e.g. homosexuality , rape ) ; courts may deal more leniently with females , and a proportion of female crime may remain undetected because the police are less sensitive to it . |
| 11 | As the full implications of these sections of the Act become apparent , the courts may be asked to resolve the difficulties caused by seeking to impose detailed codes of conduct by Act of Parliament . |
| 12 | The courts may also impose a discretionary life sentence for certain other serious crimes . |
| 13 | Where such a sovereign state has been created by a grant of independence , the courts may be more reluctant to take back power in that they would have to recognise the political fact that the state in question is a foreign country and no longer part of the legal order of this country . |
| 14 | Scrutiny by the Courts.The courts may be asked to consider whether delegated legislation is ultra vires the enabling act . |
| 15 | According to the position of the court in the hierarchy other courts may be bound by the ratio of the case or may be in a position to overrule or amend it . |
| 16 | ‘ Though events have revealed no single doctrine by which all issues of privilege arising between Parliament and the courts may be resolved , many of the problems of earlier years which are dealt with above have been substantially solved . |
| 17 | Probably the best example of this is the use of the royal prerogative , and the extent to which the courts may pass judgment on any particular use . |
| 18 | Judges of the superior courts may not be sued for anything done or said while acting in their judicial capacity even if they act from some malicious or corrupt motive . |
| 19 | It this way the decisions of courts may frequently be predicted . |
| 20 | ‘ the view of the courts may have undergone some change in regard to the relative rights of preference and ordinary shareholders … and to the disadvantage of the preference shareholders whose position has … become somewhat more approximated to [ that ] of debentureholders . ’ |
| 21 | Paragraph ( c ) is a quite extraordinary delegation ( if not abdication ) of legislative responsibility , of which the courts may have some difficulty in making sense . |
| 22 | Equity , however , stepped in , and said that if there had been a variation of a deed by a simple contract ( which in the case of a lease required to be in writing would have to be evidenced by writing ) , the courts may give effect to it as is shown in Berry v. Berry [ 1929 ] 2 K.B . |
| 23 | Sequestration is a penalty which courts may impose where an organisation or individual commits contempt of court . |
| 24 | The courts may be impressed by the expertise of the social workers ; alternatively , they may tend to side with parents faced with the power of the Social Services Departments . |
| 25 | Before the amendments made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 , there was no such provision although the courts may have been prepared to imply an appropriate term into a software licence where the making of a back-up copy was reasonably necessary to the use of the program in question . |
| 26 | In limited circumstances the courts may be prepared to imply the agreement to run the risk ( e.g. ICI v Shatwell ) . |
| 27 | The courts may also have been influenced by the rising premiums which had to be paid by anyone involved in the construction of buildings . |
| 28 | In exceptional cases the courts may take the view that established practice is unsatisfactory and find negligence . |
| 29 | The courts may allow the plaintiff to rely on the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur . |
| 30 | Some indication of the position which the courts may take is provided by the recent , although pre-1989 Act , decision : |