Sentence examples for tribunals of first instance from inspiring English sources

Courts of appeal, administrative courts, a constitutional court, and tribunals of first instance, trade, and labour also exist in Burundi.

Coutances is the seat of a court of assizes and a subprefect and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce.

At the district level, judicial powers are divided among the tribunals of first instance, which are subdivided into civil, criminal, and juvenile courts and commercial and labour tribunals.

It is the court in which French citizens may bring claims against the administration, though usually since 1953 such claims originate in the regional administrative tribunals of first instance, and appeals are taken to the Conseil d'État.

Owing to the immense volume of work falling on it, the former prefectural councils, which served as administrative courts subordinate to the Conseil d'État, were transformed in 1953 into administrative tribunals of first instance, and the professional qualifications and career prospects of their members were improved.

The company also brought a case at Europe's second-highest tribunal, the Court of First Instance, asking for more time to respond and for the commission to consider more evidence.

But on Wednesday, the Court of First Instance, the second-highest tribunal in the European Union, below the European Court of Justice, said the commission had overstepped its authority.

The challenge of the Land Court as the court of first instance regardless of the pecuniary jurisdiction, only depends on the mercies of the ward tribunals.

These courts of general jurisdiction include district tribunals, tribunals of the first instance, courts of appeal, and the Court of Cassation; the latter is the highest court of appeal and has the power to override the rulings of lower courts.

It is hardly necessary to observe, that in all we have said we have had reference to proceedings in courts of first instance, and to their jurisdiction, and not to proceedings in an appellate tribunal to review the action of such courts.

What Bratza did not accept was the prime minister's suggestions that the Strasbourg judges were acting as a "court of fourth instance", giving litigants yet another bite at the cherry, or that the court was acting as if it was an immigration tribunal or a small claims court.