Sentence examples for closed courts from inspiring English sources

Puerto Rico, home to 3.8 million people, battened down for the storm, closed courts, government offices and schools and opened emergency shelters.

Several years ago they began work on an ambitious academic study looking at the central role the judiciary has played in the development of democracies and warning of an increasing international movement away from public adjudication toward private dispute resolution, bureaucratic hearings and closed courts.

And so, if it cannot have closed courts, officials would rather ministers write cheques to claimants than give away the techniques vital to the work of MI5 and co.

Farms, with their closed courts, range in size from 75 to 250 acres (30 to 100 hectares).

They argued that the judiciary's (supposed) bias in favour of mothers depended, for its survival, on closed courts.

It has always been the government's intention that closed courts should only ever be used as a last resort and in a very small minority of cases where the alternative is no justice at all.

Mr. Sullivan informed Mr. Viola that as a result the account would be closed, court documents show.

The principal was amazed to learn that Saudi plaintiffs can request closed court proceedings.

19 April 2008: Kercher's family attend a closed court hearing in Italy to hear evidence relating to her death after leaks in the Italian media suggest she may not have been sexually assaulted on the night she was murdered.

Cutting legal aid, closing courts and laying off civil servants the sacrifices offered by the ministry last month were not enough.

Chilean officials have said their actions, including closing court hearings in Mr. Khan's case to the public, were necessary.