The word "court" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a judicial tribunal, a public place for playing sports, or a royal entourage. Example sentence: The tennis players started their match on the court.
Referred to in court as D, she entered a not guilty plea to a charge of intimidation last week while wearing a niqab after the judge backed down from a previous decision that she would have to show her face to be properly identified.
Annington has commenced court proceedings to obtain a possession order so that it can evict the squatters and take back possession of the property.
The questioning was, even by the standards of the garrulous current court, unusually intense and pointed.
The future of Barack Obama's signature healthcare reforms hangs in the balance after facing a rigorous challenge from conservative justices on the supreme court.
The two supreme court justices thought likely to cast the deciding votes, Anthony Kennedy and the chief justice, John Roberts, appeared deeply sceptical of the government's contention that healthcare regulation is a special case that gives Congress the power to oblige individuals to obtain insurance.
If the court were to rule the law unconstitutional when it issues its decision in June, it could prove a significant blow to Obama's re-election campaign by striking down his most important piece of legislation and bolstering conservative opposition.
The federal appeals court in Atlanta ordered that the execution should be delayed for at least 30 days, while a Georgia court of appeals imposed its own stay to give the courts more time to consider the propriety of the single lethal injection as a method of killing.
"The protesters were issued with a without-notice injunction from the high court but I don't think the urgency was there to justify an injunction of this kind," he said.
The message to the European court seemed clear – butt out of our business; if we want to bang people up for life that's our choice.
Documents obtained under Right to Information (RTI) laws reveal that Carmody blindsided his colleagues with a public statement that he would decide who sat in the court of disputed returns (CDR) during a cliffhanger election result in February.
The same day, Carmody issued a media statement via a spokesman that "the constitution of the court of disputed returns is a matter for the chief justice under the electoral act".
