| The Dublin district courts have refused to issue summonses which don't have a euro stamp. |
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| They are fearful that they will follow in the local district courts around the country. |
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| At the same time it is an alternative forum to the local courts and district courts. |
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| In tribally run district courts and within families, decisions that rule women's lives are a matter of obedience, convention and saving face. |
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| We also are facing upwards of 20 appeals either in district courts or in circuit courts. |
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| Federal appellate and district courts are enormously important in our legal system. |
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| At the district courts, the cases are to be heard by three judges and six jurors. |
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| Since 2003 the presidents of district courts have been obligated to examine the reasons for delays in all cases lasting more than 3 years. |
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| Eight district courts act as courts of first instance and have jurisdiction over criminal as well as civil and administrative cases. |
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| To reduce the length of pre-trial detention, Government has also embarked on constructing new district courts. |
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| Usually, district courts are courts of appeal and, in special cases provided by law, courts of the first-instance as well. |
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| Municipal courts serve the cities, and most cases start in the district courts, which are courts of general jurisdiction. |
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| In Scotland they survived until 1975, when they were abolished and replaced by district courts and later by justice of the peace courts. |
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| The original jurisdiction formerly exercised by the United States circuit courts is now exercised by the United States district courts. |
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| India, on the other hand, has one judiciary divided into district courts, high courts, and the Supreme Court of India. |
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| In a few locations, municipal courts have been retained to the exclusion of the establishment of district courts. |
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| For example, the doctrines of mootness, ripeness, and standing prohibit district courts from issuing advisory opinions. |
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| As of the First Congress, the Supreme Court justices rode circuit to sit as panels to hear appeals from the district courts. |
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| Although the provision of international judges has partially reduced the backlog of pending cases in the district courts, the operation of these district courts remains sporadic and uneven. |
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| The decline has been even steeper in federal district courts. |
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| Lower courts include district courts and family courts. |
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| The judicial system is established by the Constitution and by the laws of Kyrgyzstan, and consists of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court and district courts. |
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| Reviewing the district courts under an abuse of discretion standard, the appeals courts found no basis for upsetting the sentences in either case. |
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| Local magistrates may sit on county or district courts. |
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| The district courts of the 54 departments have handed down several judicial decisions awarding maintenance to children of divorced parents to be paid by their fathers. |
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| Defunct and historical courts include the Admiralty Court, Court of Exchequer, district courts, and the High Court of Constabulary. |
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| The legal system breaks up as follows: district courts, an intermediate court and the Supreme Court which is the highest jurisdiction of the island. |
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| In the absence of administrative courts, district courts are competent to review decisions taken by municipalities or by the state administration. |
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| This allowed the Scottish Government to unify the administration of the sheriff courts and district courts in Scotland, but retaining lay justices of the peace. |
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| Decisions of one circuit court are binding on the district courts within the circuit and on the circuit court itself, but are only persuasive authority on sister circuits. |
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| It consists of the Supreme Court of 20 permanent judges and a Chief Justice, appellate courts, city and district courts, and conciliation councils. |
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| Two years later, the right to appeals was extended to other criminal cases, and the United States Courts of Appeals were established to review decisions from district courts. |
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| The district courts was abolished in a rolling programme between 10 March 2008 and 22 February 2010, following the passage of the Criminal Proceedings etc. |
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| Stevens acknowledged that district courts may be better situated than appellate courts to determine the reprehensibility of a defendant's conduct. |
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| The Committee on District Courts establishes the number of magistrates in each district. |
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| District courts hear civil and criminal cases, high courts hear appeals, and the supreme court reviews judgments by lower courts. |
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| District courts were introduced in 1975 for minor offences and small claims. |
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| District Courts and Police Courts, which replaced the Magistrates' Courts, were also established. |
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| District courts are often responsible for handling the preliminary examination and for setting bail in felony cases. |
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| For instance, the Maine District Court is a court of limited jurisdiction, but the Nevada District Courts are courts of general jurisdiction. |
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| Since that time, the Subordinate Courts of Singapore have consisted of the District Courts, the Magistrates' Courts, the Juvenile Courts and the Coroners' Courts. |
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| District courts were introduced in 1975 as a replacement for burgh police courts and sat in each local authority area under summary procedure only. |
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| As Chief Justice, he advocated the Judiciary Act of 1925 that brought the Federal District Courts under the administrative jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. |
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