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SITTINGS COURT [7 records]

Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

Cumulative punishments :... Where an accused... is convicted of more offences than one before the same court at the same sittings, and(i) more than one fine is imposed with a direction in respect of each of them...(ii) terms of imprisonment for the respective offences are imposed, or(iii) a term of imprisonment is imposed in respect of one offence and a fine is imposed in respect of another offence...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
CONT

Peines cumulatives : (...) Si un accusé (...) est déclaré coupable de plus d'une infraction devant la même cour pendant la même session, et si (i) plus d'une amende est infligée (...) (ii) des périodes d'emprisonnement sont infligées pour les infractions respectives, ou (iii) une période d'emprisonnement est infligée à l'égard d'une infraction et une amende imposée à l'égard d'une autre infraction (...)

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Rules of Court
OBS

Sitting. The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted. A session or term of court, usually plural.

CONT

... a sittings ... shall be held.

CONT

SITTINGS OR SITTING. A sitting of the court for the trial of civil or criminal cases and includes the hearing of a single trial. Jury Act, R. S. B. C., 1979, c. 210, s. 1.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Règles de procédure

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tribunales
  • Reglamento procesal
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Record 3 2016-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Rules of Court
  • Courts
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Where a judge... considers... that an action entered for trial before him is one within the jurisdiction of a county court, the judge may order that the action be entered for trial at the next sittings of a county court having jurisdiction therein.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Règles de procédure
  • Tribunaux
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
CONT

Each person so appointed shall be called "Clerk of the Circuits for the Country of... ", or "Clerk of the "Nisi Prius" Sittings for the Country of York", as the case may be, and is entitled to receive from the parties litigant the fees prescribed by the schedule of costs in the Rules of Court.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
CONT

Chaque personne nommée porte le titre de «greffier des sessions de circuit du comté de [...]», ou «greffier des sessions «nisi prius» du comté de York», selon le cas, et elle a le droit de recevoir des parties au litige les droits prévus au barême des frais dans les Règles de la Cour.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho procesal
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Record 5 2001-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Phraseology
  • Translation (General)
CONT

Sittings in vacation or on Holiday. The court may sit in the Long Vacation or the Christmas Vacation or on a holiday if it deems it in the interests of justice to do so.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Phraséologie
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

Séances de vacances ou de jour férié. La Cour peut siéger pendant les grandes vacances ou les vacances de Noël ou pendant un jour férié si elle estime que c'est dans l'intérêt de la justice d'agir ainsi.

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Rules of Court
  • Courts
OBS

Usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • General Sitting of the Court

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Règles de procédure
  • Tribunaux

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Rules of Court
DEF

sittings... as a full court, as distinct from the sittings of single judges...

OBS

sittings. n. A tumor session of court

OBS

sittings or sitting. A sitting of the court...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Règles de procédure
OBS

plénière : (pour un organe, assemblée, commission) Qui réunit l'ensemble de ses membres [...] en une formation solennelle dotée de pouvoirs éminents, dont l'action est en général intermittente

Spanish

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