Sentences with phrase «as a magistrate»

Ugo Tognazzi stars as the magistrate of a prosperous Italian community.

Green also served as a magistrate in the City of London between 1993 and 2009.

Mr Page first attracted media attention when comments he made in a closed - door meeting while serving as a magistrate during an adoption case were picked up by a national newspaper.

In SCOTUS original jurisdiction practice, a «special master» acts basically as a magistrate judge in a district court to take evidence from the parties and supervise pre-trial procedures, who then presents the evidence collected to the Supreme Court for consideration, sometimes with a non-binding recommendation concerning how it should rule on the matter.

This refusal to act as a magistrate illustrates both Jesus» scorn for preoccupation with material possessions and his insistence on the individual's responsibility for his own decisions and conduct.

Then in 2015 Mr Page gave an interview to the BBC about freedom of religion where he reiterated his original position, saying: «My responsibility as a magistrate, as I saw it, was to do what I considered best for the child, and my feeling was therefore that it would be better if it was a man and woman who were the adopted parents.»

So Luther could say: «God does not have to have Christians as magistrates; it is not necessary, therefore, that the ruler be a saint; he does not need to be a Christian in order to rule, it is sufficient that he possess reason.»

Essentially, Senate Democrats are pushing the notion that the court can still draft legislative lines itself, just as a magistrate did with the House districts.

In 1990 she was appointed as a magistrate in the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, rising to the position of chief magistrate from 2000 to 2005.

After 24 years as a magistrate, Azrack was recommended to President Barack Obama for a federal judgeship by Sen. Kirsten Gilliband (D - N.Y.), and was confirmed by the Senate in 2014.

Talking about his father's service on parish councils and his mother's time as a magistrate, he discussed the older generation's willingness to play their part in the community and how he wants to bring them into his «big society» ideas.

BAT magistrates have the same authority as magistrates in the UK but are very rarely called upon to act.

Loosely inspired by the 1963 assassination of Greek left - wing activist Gregoris Lambrakis, this Oscar - winning classic stars Jean - Louis Trintignant as a magistrate investigating the death of an opposition leader (Yves Montand), which government officials claim was caused by a traffic accident at a demonstration.

The job of nailing the bad guys falls to the leader of a French enforcement division, Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin), known as the magistrate.

Dujardin delivers a spellingbinding performance as a man who must make a decision: whether to ensure the safety of his wife and two daughters by phoning in his job as a magistrate, or to risk sacrificing the devotion of the three by being a pit bull in pursuing his nemesis.

She is not made for herself only, but given as a magistrate of God unto mankind, for the vindication of common right and the law of nature.

Aldermen also serve as magistrates on the City bench.

Patterson's term as magistrate of the Toronto Women's Police Court came to an end in 1934.

Patterson's mission in India also foreshadowed her later efforts to rescue women from vice and immorality as a magistrate of the Women's Court.

With Patterson as magistrate, the jurisdiction of the Women's Court was expanded to include all «domestic relations» cases as well as all criminal matters in which women were accused and all sexual offences in which women were involved, including as victims.

Lawcast 129: Professor Steve Molyneux — the magistrate who resigned after a complaint following his use of Twitter Today I am talking to Steve Molyneux, the distinguished academic who is very much in the news today having resigned from the bench as a magistrate after a complaint was received about his Twittering...

«We have people who hold public offices, such as magistrates and school governors, for example,» says Harris.

«As a magistrate, I have to act on the evidence before me and quite simply, I believe that there is not sufficient evidence to convince me that placing a child in the care of a same - sex couple can be as holistically beneficial to a child as placing them with a mum and dad as God and nature intended.

For twelve years the event has been brewing, since Paul Pressler, a Houston judge who, as a magistrate.

In answering questions at the Senate hearing in 2014 about her fitness to be a federal judge, Azrack said that as a magistrate, «I have always grounded my decisions in precedent and the text of the law, irrespective of any political ideology or motivation....

The move is expected to save the Ministry of Justice significant sums, as a magistrates» court at # 1,400 per day costs less than the # 2,150 daily bill for a crown court sitting day.

The inclusion of courts in the definition of public authority means that individuals are sometimes able to rely on Convention grounds in judicial review proceedings against the lower courts, such as magistrates» courts and the immigration appeals tribunal.