Sentence examples for courts in which from inspiring English sources

The judicial system is headed by a Supreme Court and consists of a number of law courts in which civil, commercial, administrative, and criminal cases are heard.

In some systems there is a level above the local court, usually referred to as assize courts, in which exceptionally serious crimes, such as homicide, are tried.

Consider, too, the issue of "drug courts" in which the defendant's medical treatment for addiction is determined by prosecutors and a judge, not by doctors.

That series detailed courts in which defendants were jailed illegally, subjected to racial and sexual bigotry and denied the right to trial.

Malpractice cases should be tried by mediation in which litigators are not involved or in "medical courts" in which impartial physician-judges decide the merits of the cases.

The case is one of several making their way through federal courts in which journalists have been ordered to reveal their sources.

It was one of those long days at court in which little happens.

Charles Dickens in his novel The Pickwick Papers (1836 37) describes a court in which the inmates whiled away their time.

If this seems like a kangaroo court in which the kangaroos all run in circles, you are not alone.

The hundred had a court in which private disputes and criminal matters were settled by customary law.

Jacobs also administers the city's court, in which the independent judges are paid a flat hourly rate.