Sentence examples for statement counsel from inspiring English sources

In her opening statement, counsel assisting the coroner, Rachel Ellyard, told coroner Ian Gray there had been four separate arrest warrants out for Anderson at the time.

Unlike the Opening Statement, counsel speaks in the past tense (i.e. "as testimony has shown" and "as evidence showed") while counsel actively engages in persuasive speech to argue for their case.

In his opening statement, counsel to the inquiry, Ashley Underwood QC, described how the inquiry team hoped that they have found a solution to protect the source of sensitive evidence of central relevance to the question of how Rodney met his death that will enable the inquiry to be fully in public.

Mr. Sadr's statement counseled his followers to be patient, to pursue "peaceful resistance" and to not give "others the excuse to attack you".

Every statement of counsel operated as a question to the prisoner,... the prisoner either admitting or denying or explaining what was alleged against him.

But this statement by counsel, coming as it did, of course, before the jury began deliberations, apparently did not prevent the jury from asking the question in the first place.

In this respect the case differs from that of Oscanyan v. Arms Co. 103 U.S. 261, where it was held to be entirely proper for the trial court to direct a verdict for the defendant upon the opening statement of counsel for the plaintiff, when, as in that case, such statement is full, exact, and explicit.

The court, in denying the application, did so by reference to its opinion on a similar motion in a companion suit decided at the same time (Montana Horse Products Co. v. Great Northern Ry. Co., supra), and nowhere in that opinion did it contest the statement of counsel that the effect of the Fourteenth Amendment had been argued at every stage.

In an opening statement, Gerard Elias QC, counsel to the inquiry, said of the film: "Even if one considers only the video that we have just looked at, it may be thought to be entirely apparent that these detainees were being subjected to stress positions and prolonged hooding.

Calling the tax on soft drinks "plainly illegal," in a statement, plaintiffs' counsel Shanin Specter of Kline & Spector pointed out that Philadelphia has other ways to raise revenue.

In a rare statement, special counsel Robert Mueller's office has said BuzzFeed's story is inaccurate, though the outlet is pushing for clarification from Mueller on the particulars.