noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Magistrates' Court
stipendiary magistrate
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
examining
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The process passes into its second stage when the prosecutor submits his dossier to an examining magistrate .
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The examining magistrate will decide to send the case to trial, except when proof of innocence is clear.
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Before an examining magistrate the accused is entitled to legal representation.
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Then the examining magistrate changed his mind, released Mr Laroche and charged Mrs Villemin with killing her own son.
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Then the original examining magistrate was dismissed from the case for making such a muddle of it.
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All serious offences had to be investigated by an examining magistrate .
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But in practice the pretrial process was often conducted not by an examining magistrate but by the prosecutor or the police.
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Mrs Villemin had no difficulty in seeing off her first examining magistrate .
local
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The local magistrate might not believe in the frayed elastic, either, if the McReady family were pillars of the kirk.
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For most people their only experience of the law in action is likely to be the local magistrates court.
stipendiary
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At the hearing of the information, the stipendiary magistrate dismissed the charge.
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Solicitors and barristers may be appointed as Recorders or stipendiary magistrates .
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A family bench may include a stipendiary magistrate in which case he must preside.
■ NOUN
court
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The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court .
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For most people their only experience of the law in action is likely to be the local magistrates court .
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Court closed: Whitby's main magistrates court closes next week for repairs.
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They had been quashed by Bow Street magistrates court earlier this year on the grounds of delay.
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To start that procedure, the authority applies to a magistrates court for a summons.
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The hearing at Coleford magistrates court was adjourned for three weeks.
teesside
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Yesterday the two appeared for sentencing and Simon Catterall, prosecuting, asked Teesside magistrates to confiscate their pet terriers.
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Anthony Ganguly continued the deception when he appeared before Teesside magistrates and was placed on probation.
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A 24-year-old man has appeared before Teesside magistrates charged with the girl's murder.
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Donald Murphy was remanded in custody on an assault charge by Teesside magistrates last Friday.
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Goth appeared before Teesside magistrates on Monday on a charge of grievous bodily harm with intent and was bailed.
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He appeared before Teesside magistrates on Thursday after spending a night in a police cell.
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But the case was adjourned. Teesside magistrates also lifted reporting restrictions in the case.
town
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Telford, of Wheatley, Doncaster, was conditionally discharged by town magistrates after admitting threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour.
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admit
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He was conditionally discharged by Newcastle magistrates in December after admitting assaulting railway worker John Beach.
appear
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He will appear before Tower Bridge magistrates on September 2.
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Paul Weddle, 25, of Gateshead, Wear, will appear before magistrates today with a 15-year-old youth.
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There were protracted delays in their trial until they appeared before a magistrate in Liverpool on February 9 last year.
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Anthony Ganguly continued the deception when he appeared before Teesside magistrates and was placed on probation.
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A local man who has been charged with grievous bodily harm will face further questioning today before he appears before magistrates .
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In September he appeared before Milton Keynes magistrates , but they deferred sentence.
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The two accused men are due to appear before Chelmsford magistrates today.
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Police said a 17-year-old white schoolboy will appear before magistrates in the Western Transvaal town of Swartruggens in connection with the attack.
apply
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Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours.
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She could apply to the magistrates or the High Court for an order in her favour.
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The new family code will be applied by magistrates and judges especially trained in family law.
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To start that procedure, the authority applies to a magistrates court for a summons.
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If they still do not pay, the council can apply to the magistrates court for a summons to be served.
bring
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They brought her before a magistrate the first thing in the morning.
charge
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He'd been released on bail by Cheltenham magistrates after being charged with raping a twenty year old woman.
deal
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There are also various other matters that are dealt with by the magistrates .
decide
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The examining magistrate will decide to send the case to trial, except when proof of innocence is clear.
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A magistrate will decide whether Pavarotti should face trial.
grant
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Read in studio A man accused of murder has been granted bail by magistrates .
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He wants prosecutors to be given powers to appeal where bail has been granted by magistrates contrary to police wishes.
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He was granted bail by magistrates on his committal for trial.
hear
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He faces a hearing before a magistrate on Friday.
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Mr Vilaseca's case is due to be heard by Preston magistrates on December 15.
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They face an extradition hearing before a federal magistrate in San Diego on June 19.
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The case is being heard at Oxford magistrates .
investigate
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They feel he should give evidence to the investigating magistrates and make his position clear in an address to the nation.
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All serious offences had to be investigated by an examining magistrate .
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Prostitutesare not forthcoming with the police or investigating magistrates .
tell
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He told the magistrates the licence was for a car which had not been on the road for nine months.
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He will not tell the magistrate where he lives.
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He told magistrates at Cheltenham that he never retaliated if he sensed trouble in his work.
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James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month.
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It told magistrates it had a duty to ensure shops complied with the law.
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Voice over Mrs Frak was sacked after the incident and was told by magistrates she could now face prison.
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He told magistrates he is using his car to search for new shops to relaunch his business career.
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Crowther told Darlington magistrates he had been drinking before a football match several hours before he was stopped by police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Exclaiming that he was already a priest, Quirnus insisted that the magistrate put him to death.
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He was granted bail by magistrates on his committal for trial.
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In a hearing Wednesday afternoon before a federal magistrate , he waived his right to an attorney.
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In addition to his duties as medical officer to the workhouse he was a magistrate and the coroner for the Borough of Bedford.
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Jackson and Medina made a brief appearance before a federal magistrate Tuesday on the extortion charge.
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Oxford police recently reported their concern to the city's magistrates and their determination to crack down.
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The Customs officer, policeman, and magistrate began to nod, at first uncertain, reluctant, then with growing accord.
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The girl told the magistrates she stole to get money to pay for cigarettes.