Example sentences of "to go to court " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order . |
| 2 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 3 | ‘ I might have to go to court . ’ |
| 4 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 5 | Although they had certain rights especially under equity law , few women were willing to go to court against their husbands At lower levels of society the forms of marriage tended to be more relaxed . |
| 6 | The expiry date loomed as we prepared to go to court , but to our relief Wedgwood agreed a three-year extension in recognition of the work we had done . |
| 7 | The day came when we were to go to court to legalise the situation . |
| 8 | If he did n't want to go to court for a very minor offence , then you could caution him . |
| 9 | Eventually it was left to the proprietors of the banned publications — Times Newspapers Ltd , News International plc , etc. — and ratepayers in some of the local authorities affected to go to court . |
| 10 | Researchers for the Lord Chancellor 's Civil Justice Review found that three quarters of local authority tenants , half the private tenants and two-fifths of mortgage borrowers failed to go to court . |
| 11 | It can also increase your bargaining powers if the other side knows you are not afraid to go to court . |
| 12 | You either have to go to court knowing that you are likely to lose . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyway , Anne , the important thing is to go to court and accustom yourself to its ways , ’ she said practically . |
| 14 | Now engineer Jaafer Sheblee , 34 , plans to go to court to make Thornton Swish stick to the contract . |
| 15 | But her mum refused to hand over a penny — and Chris 's parents finally decided to go to court for the cash . |
| 16 | Mrs White , 52 , said : ‘ We never wanted to go to court to get the money . |
| 17 | But I consider myself perfectly competent to be able to go to court , make applications for remand , make pleas of mitigation where there 's a guilty plea and also conduct a case in such a way as to be able to pass it over to someone else in the practice . |
| 18 | You must decide at the start whether to go to court or use arbitration ; if you use arbitration you can not start court action afterwards . |
| 19 | You must decide at the start whether to go to court or use arbitration ; if you use arbitration you can not start court action afterwards . |
| 20 | Working class people in general find it hard to go to court , and the people in West Belfast have no faith in the legal system anyway . |
| 21 | But we still got the threat : I 'd be summonsed , and no way did I want to go to court . |
| 22 | I ca n't arrest you and say guilty cos you have to go to court , so you would always be arrested on suspicion of murder . |
| 23 | I was quite prepared to go to court . |
| 24 | Stephen Navin was urging that the case should be allowed to go to court : Virgin , he argued , were on solid ground . |
| 25 | At the time of going to press she is back in the C1 psychiatric unit at Holloway as a convicted remand prisoner waiting to go to court . |
| 26 | She was looking forward to getting a flat of her own and was about to go to court in an attempt to regain custody of her daughter . |
| 27 | To go to court . |
| 28 | I had to go to court , to pay five bob , cos I were riding a bike without a light . |
| 29 | A wife 's promise not to go to court to seek maintenance from her estranged husband was deemed to be void as being contrary to public policy and , consequently , the husband 's promise to pay her money in consideration of her agreeing not to go to court was made without consideration and also void : Gaisberg v. Storr [ 1950 ] 1 K.B.107 , but see now , Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , S.34 , below , p. 220 . |
| 30 | A wife 's promise not to go to court to seek maintenance from her estranged husband was deemed to be void as being contrary to public policy and , consequently , the husband 's promise to pay her money in consideration of her agreeing not to go to court was made without consideration and also void : Gaisberg v. Storr [ 1950 ] 1 K.B.107 , but see now , Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , S.34 , below , p. 220 . |