Sentence examples for ask counsel from inspiring English sources

Don't make the same mistake as Mr Justice Popplewell, who asked: "What is Linford Christie's lunchbox?" During a high court libel case involving sprinter Linford Christie, Popplewell called a halt to proceedings to infamously ask counsel the meaning of this phrase, much-used in the media.

"At a later stage I would ask counsel to address me on that aspect".

I asked counsel from a worldly and rich friend, himself no stranger to the judicial system.

"Did you refer that complaint to the police?" asked counsel assisting the royal commission, Gail Furness.

"When asked, counsel agreed that others in the Houston office had shredded tons of documents," the affidavit said.

But nobody had ever asked counsel about the issue on which the majority had apparently based their decision.

Branca, for all we knew until Monday, was a Catholic who asked counsel from a Jesuit priest after the Thomson home run.

At one point Hayne asked counsel for Morrison to tell the court "how long these people have been aboard that ship".

On Tuesday Lord Thomas also asked counsel to prepare written submissions on the question of who should be responsible for the substantial legal costs incurred, to be decided at a later date.

Driver asked counsel for the immigration minister, Scott Morrison, whether it was possible to give the court an undertaking that no removals would take place while the processes were ongoing, but no undertakings were offered.

At one point, Justice Sotomayor -- almost pondering -- asked counsel for the defendants whether this issue should be left to percolate like other tough social issues, such as race.