Sentence examples for courts were given from inspiring English sources

But the courts were given a different role.

It is indicative of the All England Club's odd way of presenting a grand slam that while important matches were stacking up on a rain-blitzed day like the clouds overhead, the show courts were given over to tennis ephemera.

They told ministers that foreign agencies, notably the CIA, would not share intelligence with the UK in future unless courts were given the statutory authority to impose secret hearings.

"Ladies of ill repute who found themselves in the courts were given this opportunity to either go work for their country, or go to prison," he said.

The Common Law, then, might have limited its doctrine of stare decisis by holding that later courts were not bound by earlier decisions that were wrongly decided.[2] Instead it developed a different practice that of 'overruling', whereby some courts were given a limited power to deprive earlier decisions of their binding status on the basis that they were wrongly decided.

The circuit courts were given concurrent jurisdiction over these crimes, and exclusive jurisdiction over all other federal crimes.

He said the courts were giving short prison sentences because there were not enough alternative punishments, and that he wanted to make community sentences tougher.

Generally, state courts are given the last word in interpreting their own constitutions.

Gray also recommended courts be given the power to compel perpetrators to undergo psychiatric assessment and take part in behaviour change programs.

"These courts are given unrealistic targets of cases to finish.

Imagine if a court were given appellate review over itself.