Sentence examples for magistrate from inspiring English sources

Trials at magistrate and crown courts across England and Wales are likely to be abandoned or rescheduled as a result of the first full-day walkout staged by lawyers.

The magistrate said a conviction would be "disastrous".

The magistrate, Suzie Cameron, was told Causevic applied for a passport on 2 March.

Nauru is a 'rogue state' Former magistrate Peter Law "Why is it the Australian government has no expectations as to the conduct of this 'rogue state' despite providing the bulk of its funds for survival?" Australia makes substantial aid contributions to Nauru, and also funds the costs of the Nauru detention centre on the island.

In Sangara's case, the Jodhpur magistrate was sympathetic, and her husband also consented.

An unlikely judge but the kind of cat who, in fact, understanding full well the wonderful wildness of life, will make a fine magistrate?

We limit the state's ability to search and seize to specific places and things that a neutral magistrate believes it is reasonable to allow.

The 71-year-old former minister, who once reputedly had the power to crown state premiers, sat quietly in the back of the crowded courtroom with his hands clasped as the magistrate dealt with the routine assaults, affrays and robberies that preceded his matter.

The former New South Wales Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid has been been granted unconditional bail after a magistrate found he posed no "unacceptable risk" of fleeing the country.

One magistrate said it had opened her eyes to how intimidating the process can be and said that in future she would visit the holding cells to speak to prisoners before they come into court.

The former chief magistrate Geoffrey Eames was also removed from the island.