Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] of appeal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee Anthony Roberts , aged 20 , the sex offender scarred for life when his five-year-old victim 's mother poured boiling water over his trousers , had his nine-year youth custody sentence for rape , imposed at Exeter Crown Court in November last year , cut to six years yesterday by the Court of Appeal . |
| 2 | Stephen Pinsent , a former weightlifting champion who was jailed last month for supplying anabolic steroids , had his three-month sentence reduced to 28 days by the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 3 | The first inquest verdict was later quashed by the Court of Appeal . |
| 4 | AMAN jailed for 12 years for robbery after he was picked out on an identity parade because of his ‘ frightening , evil , and sadistic eyes ’ , was cleared by the Court of Appeal in London yesterday . |
| 5 | They obtained an injunction which prevented compulsory observation from June 1981 to January 1984 , when it was finally overturned by the Court of Appeal . |
| 6 | The criteria adopted by the Court of Appeal in Newell ( 1980 ) were that courts should only take account of characteristics with which the provocation was concerned ; permanent characteristics such as race and , probably , religion may be taken into account , but transient conditions such as intoxication and exhaustion may not . |
| 7 | The difficulties in the case were caused by the Court of Appeal 's earlier failure to rule on two of Berry 's three grounds of appeal , said Lord Lane , but that did not preclude the Home Secretary from re-opening the case . |
| 8 | Berry 's conviction was quashed on a legal technicality by the Court of Appeal in early 1984 , but later that year the House of Lords restored the conviction in allowing an appeal by the Crown . |
| 9 | The difficulties in the case were caused by the Court of Appeal 's earlier failure to rule on two of Berry 's three grounds of appeal , said Lord Lane , but that did not preclude the Home Secretary from re-opening the case . |
| 10 | Berry 's conviction was quashed on a legal technicality by the Court of Appeal in early 1984 , but later that year the House of Lords restored the conviction in allowing an appeal by the Crown . |
| 11 | This was reduced from eight to six years by the Court of Appeal in 1990 , but the court then ruled that his remaining two grounds of appeal could not be argued in the light of the 1984 Lords decision . |
| 12 | In the second case , the Law Lords reinstated a £12,000 damages award which had been cancelled by the Court of Appeal . |
| 13 | It is to be noted that this proposition appears to have been doubted by the Court of Appeal subsequently in Francome v. Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd , where Sir Robert 's remarks were distinguished as relating to a case involving the detection of crime . |
| 14 | A fairly narrow meaning has been ascribed to it by the Court of Appeal : |
| 15 | This was made clear by the Court of Appeal in Rapier v London Tramways Co . , |
| 16 | The attempt by the Court of Appeal to prevent Touvier from coming to trial may succeed but the verdict has led to an alarming rhetorical question posed in Le Monde : ‘ Should not these crimes be judged , not in the name of a single people but of the whole of humanity … and should it not be in Strasbourg , under European jurisdiction and not in Paris or Lyon that they be judged ? ’ |
| 17 | A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce . |
| 18 | Police reopened the file on the 1975 killing after Stephan Kiszko was cleared of the crime by the Court of Appeal after serving 16 years of a life sentence . |
| 19 | Since the law was altered , 63 sentences have been reviewed by the Court of Appeal . |
| 20 | The sentence was upheld by the Court of Appeal in Ta'iz in 1986 but is pending ratification by the Presidential Council of the new Republic of Yemen . |
| 21 | It has been held by the Court of Appeal in one instance , that the ‘ employer 's conduct ’ which entitles an employee to resign is conduct which ‘ fundamentally breaches ’ the employment contract . |
| 22 | This is given added weight by the Court of Appeal judgement of July 1988 which applied the Race Relations Act 1976 to travellers . |
| 23 | A JURY 'S award of £250,000 libel damages to That 's Life presenter Esther Rantzen was cut to £110,000 yesterday by the Court of Appeal . |
| 24 | Lavin and , on my understanding , by the Court of Appeal in ( Gladstone ) Williams . |
| 25 | It was however accepted by the Court of Appeal in 1980 that an injunction could properly be granted even if the defendant was based in England if in the circumstances there was a danger of the assets being removed , and this was put beyond doubt by section 37(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 which provides : |
| 26 | It has been held by the Court of Appeal that the privilege against self-incrimination can be invoked in this context where , accepting the facts as alleged by the plaintiff , there is a reasonable apprehension on the part of the defendant that he might be prosecuted in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | The meaning of this troublesome phrase was a central issue in the English case of The State of Norway 's Application which was twice considered by the Court of Appeal and once by the House of Lords . |
| 28 | In that case the conviction of three youths in 1972 was later overturned by the Court of Appeal in a judgment which by implication raised disturbing questions about police interrogations , especially of juveniles and the mentally handicapped . |
| 29 | Unlike the fully suspended sentence which had become popular , in some ways too popular with the initial enthusiasm of the courts having to be reined in by the Court of Appeal , the partly suspended sentence never caught on . |
| 30 | Although there was a voluntary curtailment of the use of this privilege in 1956 , the position was severely criticised by the Court of Appeal in three cases in 1965 . |