Sentences with phrase «district judge at first instance»

The district judge at first instance awarded the wife a lump sum of # 456,000 to capitalise her periodical payments arrived at using the following calculation:

The district judge at first instance declined to grant relief from the sanctions in r 3.14 holding that the second breach rendered the first breach which would otherwise have been trivial, a non-trivial one.

The judge hearing the appeal found that the district judge at first instance had been right, on the evidence before him, to decide that there «had been no answer» and, indeed, the judge came to the same conclusion.

Not exact matches

The decision might seem harsher still, since it is an example of an appellate judge who reviews a discretion - based decision of the judge below, and concludes that he would not have made the variation order himself, at first instance; but upholds the decisions and, correctly, dismisses the appeal, because it can not be said that the district judge was wrong or that his decision was outside the range of discretionary decisions that was properly open to him.

At first instance, the District Judge rejected Profindo's claims and also upheld Abani's counterclaim against Profindo for a shortfall in the quantity of cement delivered.

To handle the daily pressure at the Appellate Court and be the sole judge at courts of first instance (district courts) in criminal as well as civil cases.