The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

`` That is extravagant language, Mr. Wales.

In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia, arraignment is the first of eleven stages in a criminal trial, and involves the clerk of the court reading out the indictment.

Affidavits are made in a similar way as to England and Wales, although " make oath " is sometimes omitted.

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

( Scuba diving for abalone in the states of New South Wales and Western Australia is illegal ; a free-diving catch limit of two is allowed ).

Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.

Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

* Attorney ( England and Wales ), a person, who may be but is not necessarily a lawyer, who is authorised to act on someone else's behalf in either a business or a personal matter

ADFA teaches military undergraduates and postgraduates and is officially a campus of the University of New South Wales while Duntroon provides Australian Army Officer training.

He does not, however, exercise any direct authority in the provinces outside England, except in certain minor roles dictated by Canon in those provinces ( for example, he is the judge in the event of an ecclesiastical prosecution against the Archbishop of Wales ).

In one paragraph he wrote: " The laws of this country will of course, be introduced in South Wales, and there is one that I would wish to take place from the moment his Majesty's forces take possession of the country: That there can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves ", and he meant what he said.

The memorial to the first governor of New South Wales, Arthur Phillip, is on the right hand wall

In England and Wales, affray is a statutory offence.

The constituency is in south Wales, situated on the right bank of the River Afan, near its mouth in Swansea Bay.

Aberdare () is an industrial town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare ( Dâr ) and Cynon.

In the town centre is St Elvan's Church, a Church in Wales church at the heart of the Parish of Aberdare.

* 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.

Respondents were able to write in an affiliation not covered by the checklist of common religions, and a total of 42, 262 people from England, Scotland and Wales declared themselves to be Pagans by this method.

* 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.

She was declared heiress presumptive to Queen Anne of England and Ireland by the Act of Settlement 1701, which was passed by the English parliament, and therefore only applied to the Kingdom of England ( which included Wales ) and the Kingdom of Ireland.

* June 14 – Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies with the French against the English.

Rebellions continued throughout the first ten years of Henry's reign, including the revolt of Owain Glyndŵr, who declared himself Prince of Wales in 1400, and the rebellion of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.

Camilla, second wife of The Prince of Wales, legally holds the title " Princess of Wales ", but at the time that the engagement was announced, it was declared that she would be known by the title " Duchess of Cornwall " ( derived from one of the other titles her husband holds as heir apparent ) in deference, it has been reported, to public feelings about the title's previous holder, the Prince's first wife Diana.

There are twenty towns in England and Wales that were recognised as cities by " ancient prescriptive right "; none of these communities had been formally declared a city, but they had all used the title since " time immemorial ", that is, prior to 3 September 1189.

At the time, a scientific committee appointed by the New South Wales state government recommended the area of around 100, 000 hectares be protected as a National Park, however the Japanese company Harris-Daishowa sought to log the area for woodchips, and most of the land was categorised as State Forest, with only Nalbaugh and Nungatta National Parks declared in what is now South East Forest National Park.

But at the outbreak of the English Civil War, although most of South Wales sided with the King, Pembroke declared for Parliament.

In the Commons on 10 December, he declared that it was the right of the Prince of Wales to install himself as regent immediately.

However, he continued to campaign for federation and during the period between January 1893 to February 1897, Barton addressed nearly 300 meetings in New South Wales, including in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield where he declared that " For the first time in history, we have a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation ".

Under the reign of Edward VI in England and Wales, the Protestant Anglicanism was declared to be the state religion, and under the Reformation many maypoles, such as the famous Cornhill maypole of London, were destroyed, however when Mary I ascended the throne after Edward's death, she reinstated Roman Catholicism as the state faith, and the practice of maypoles was reinstated.

The date was declared a national day of celebration within Wales in the 18th century.

The city was declared a state of emergency by New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma the following day.

It was the site chosen by Captain Arthur Phillip between 21 and 23 January 1788 for the British penal settlement which is now the city of Sydney, and where possession of New South Wales was formally declared on 26 January ( now commemorated as Australia Day ).

Menzies trained as a barrister, but in 1996 he was declared a vexatious litigant by HM Courts Service which prohibits him from taking legal action in England and Wales without prior judicial permission.

At the Welsh Rugby Union ( WRU ) annual general meeting that year, the outgoing WRU President D. Ewart Davies declared that " it was evident from the experience of the South African Tour that a much more positive attitude to the game was required in Wales ... Players must be prepared to learn, and indeed re-learn, to the absolute point of mastery, the basic principles of Rugby Union football.

* in the early colonial settlement phase on New Zealand ( where the Polynesian Māori declared independence on 28 October 1835 as the Confederation of the United Tribes, under British protectorate ), from 10 May 1833 James Busby ( b. 1801 – d. 1871 ; from 1834 – 1836 jointly with Thomas McDonnell as co-Resident ) till 28 January 1840, then two Lieutenant governors ( as part of New South Wales, in Australia ) and many Governors since 3 January 1841

Worse was to come when the Japanese declared war in December 1941 and, after Pearl Harbor, the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, and the occupation of Malaya, Singapore, and the Dutch East Indies, there was an aggressive threat from the east.

De Groot declared the bridge open " in the name of the loyal and decent people of New South Wales " and was promptly arrested by a New South Wales State Police officer and taken to a mental asylum for examination.

Ownership of Chelsea Bridge was transferred to the MBW in 1877 at a cost of £ 75, 000 ( about £ as of ), and on 24 May 1879 Chelsea Bridge, Battersea Bridge and Albert Bridge were declared toll free by the Prince of Wales in a brief ceremony, after which a parade of Chelsea Pensioners marched across the bridge to Battersea Park.

Steel Company of Wales, a British steelmaker, wants to bring in Virginia coal, cut down on its takings of Welsh coal in order to be able to compete more effectively -- especially in foreign markets.

Virginia coal, delivered by ship in Wales, will be about $2.80 a ton cheaper than Welsh coal delivered by rail from nearby mines.

Phillip showed in other ways that he recognised that New South Wales could not be run simply as a prison camp.

In England the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 allowed such inferences to be made for the first time in England and Wales ( it was already possible in Scotland under the rule of criminative circumstances ).

For example, in England and Wales and in most states of the United States, the basic law of contracts, torts and property do not exist in statute, but only in common law ( though there may be isolated modifications enacted by statute ).

To cross a wide valley ( where the journey delay caused by a flight of locks at either side would be unacceptable ) the centre of the valley can be spanned by an aqueduct-a famous example in Wales is the Pontcysyllte aqueduct across the valley of the River Dee.

Celtic languages are most commonly spoken on the north-western edge of Europe, notably in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man, and can be found spoken on Cape Breton Island.

The result was that Channel 4 as seen by the rest of the United Kingdom would be replaced in Wales by Sianel Pedwar Cymru ( S4C ) ().

Where it is not necessary to be so urgent, or where indirect contempt has taken place the Attorney General can intervene and the Crown Prosecution Service will institute criminal proceedings on his behalf before a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

The next World Cups will be hosted by Australia and New Zealand in 2015, and England and Wales in 2019.

Malory's editor Caxton rejects the association, saying Camelot was in Wales and that its ruins could still be seen ; this is a likely reference to the Roman ruins at Caerwent.

Unlike reforms in the United Kingdom, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and soon to be Western Australia, this law does not have a retrospective effect, which is unpopular with some advocates of the reform.

In England and Wales, under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 ( CPR ), an expert witness is required to be independent and address his or her expert report to the court.

Yale's ancestry can be traced back to the family estate at Plas yn Iâl near the village of Llandegla, Denbighshire, Wales.

The Fifth Monarchists were also a significant opponent to the Rump Parliament and leading Fifth Monarchists like Vavasor Powell were annoyed at the Rump's failure to renew certain pieces of legislation, such as the Propagation of the Gospel in Wales, because they believed that the Rump was not fulfilling what the Fifth Monarchists perceived to be its aim, that is to turn England into a more ' godly ' nation.

For instance, the Archbishop of Wales has criticized " atheistic fundamentalism " broadly and said " Any kind of fundamentalism, be it Biblical, atheistic or Islamic, is dangerous ".

Suggestions during the early 1980s that the Prince of Wales might become the Governor-General came to nothing due to the constitutional difficulty that would be created if Prince Charles became King.

On 16 January 1996, Premier Bob Carr announced that the next Governor would be Gordon Samuels, that he would not live or work at Government House and that he would retain his appointment as Chairman of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission.

In England and Wales ( except in private prosecutions by individuals ) an indictment is issued by the public prosecutor ( in most cases this will be the Crown Prosecution Service ) on behalf of the Crown, i. e. the Monarch, who is the nominal plaintiff in all public prosecutions under English law.