Sentence examples for allows magistrates from inspiring English sources

Regulation 47 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 allows magistrates to commit someone with council tax debt to prison.

The law effectively allows magistrates to opt out of performing same-sex, or even interracial or interfaith, marriages.

For example, in North Carolina, a U.S. federal judge is hearing a challenge to State Senate Bill 2, which allows magistrate judges to "recuse [themselves] from performing all lawful marriages... based upon any sincerely held religious objection".

The provision would also allow magistrates to hand out sentences of up to 15 months for two or more offences.

The preliminary charges allow magistrates more time to investigate before deciding whether to send a case to trial.

Opponents of the proposed "reasonable belief" exception suggest that such a modification would allow magistrates and judges to flout the probable cause requirements in issuing warrants.

The preliminary charges allow magistrates more time to investigate before deciding whether to file formal charges and send a case to trial.

Grayling, who spoke of a "baying cybermob", said the changes will allow magistrates to pass on the most serious cases to crown courts.

One of his first reforms should be either to change the rules for imposing court charges to allow magistrates to make the penalty fit the crime, or just abolish them outright.

It will also include proposals to introduce television cameras into courts, reform judicial appointments and allow magistrates sitting on their own to operate from community centres and police stations to deal with low-level uncontested cases within days or even hours of arrest.

It will also include proposals to introduce television cameras into courts, reform judicial appointments and allow magistrates sitting on their own to operate from community centres and police stations so they can deal with low-level, uncontested cases within days or even hours of a suspect's arrest.