Sentence examples for summon documents from inspiring English sources

For example, the commission can summon documents and testimony during an investigation but cannot directly enforce such orders.

Sir John said the panel planned to hold hearings and summon documents dealing with every phase of the war, from the decisions that preceded military action in Iraq to their aftermath.

Ideas42 worked with the New York City government to create new designs of the Summons document that people get for criminal court cases.

It holds a court summons and documents from his in-laws that he has declined to accept, say lawyers who tried to serve the papers.

The greatest cameramen and editors of the epoch were summoned to document the liberation: Sidney Bernstein, Richard Crossman, John Krish, Peter Tanner, Alfred Hitchcock.

On the surface, many of the documents summon up a world of wealthy bonhomie.

Mr. Brown said the panel would be empowered to summon "any British document" and "any British citizen," implying that American officials would not be asked to testify.

Although the Senate cannot initiate impeachment, it can hold hearings, summon witnesses and demand documents.

He outlined a voluntary deal between newspapers which would give a new body powers to seize records and documents and summon journalists for questioning.

They can initiate investigations — on the recommendation of a prosecutor or victims — and can raid and search premises, order wiretaps, confiscate documents and summon witnesses.

Michèle Alliot-Marie, the justice minister, is working on a draft law to this effect, to be presented in the new year.France's 600-odd investigating judges, a central feature of its inquisitorial system, can put suspects under formal investigation, order wiretaps, raid and search premises, confiscate documents, and summon and interrogate witnesses.