A Court of Quarter Sessions was held four times a year in each district to oversee the administration of the district and deal with legal cases.

The Laws in Wales Acts created an anomaly in that, although Monmouthshire was noted as being in the ' Country or Dominion of Wales ', it was made directly responsible to the courts of Westminster rather than falling under the Court of Great Sessions in Wales.

The Courts of Justice Act 1924 abolished the County Court in the Irish Free State and transferred its jurisdiction ( together with that of Quarter Sessions ) to the Circuit Court.

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It was the location of the County of London Sessions House from 1917, in a building now occupied by the Inner London Crown Court.

* William Smeathers well known frontiersman, Smeathers served on first grand jury of Court of Quarter Sessions at Hartford, 1803 ; credited as the first settler of Yellow Banks, now present day Owensboro, KY and cited on Kentucky historical marker # 1548 in Hartford, KY.

Judge Kennedy of the Quarter Sessions Court of Allegheny County made the ruling and ordered the decree for the new borough.

Mahanoy City, originally a part of Mahanoy township was settled in 1859 and incorporated as a borough by decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill County on December 16, 1863.

Springville Township is a township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States that was formed during the April Session ( of the Court of Quarter Sessions ) in 1814.

A petition was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions in November of 1854, requesting a division of the Hopewell Township.

As the town progressed, the residents felt themselves restricted by the Act of 1830 and petitioned Westmoreland County Court of Quarter Sessions to become subject to the Act of April 3, 1851.

The present site of Paris was selected by five commissioners appointed to the task at the December 1822 session of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Henry County.

The Borough of Telford was incorporated by decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Bucks County of November 10, 1886.

A decade later, The Borough of West Telford was incorporated by decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montgomery County of December 27, 1897.

If the High Court or Court of Sessions agree that the AIT has made a mistake in not considering the application for reconsideration, he may order the AIT to reconsider.

This act required constables at the end of their terms to return the names of three freeholders to the Court of General Sessions, who then appointed one to serve the next year.

He moved to New York City in 1932 to direct the psychiatric clinic connected with the New York Court of General Sessions in which all convicted felons received a psychiatric examination that was used in court.

He subsequently held various legal offices, including marshal of the High Court of Admiralty, 1751-3 ; a judge of Great Sessions for North Wales ( Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire ) from 1757 ; Recorder of Bristol and King's Counsel from 1764 ; and second justice of Chester from 1778.

* the Court of Great Sessions were established, a system peculiar to Wales ;

After the opening of Newport Crown Court the Sessions House was a Magistrates ' Court until 1995.

Following his tenure as Justice of the Peace, Hopkins became a justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, sitting on this court from 1736 to 1746, and being the clerk of this body for the last five of these years.

While his parents and older siblings left for England in April and May that year, Charles remained in Scotland, with his father's friend and the Lord President of the Court of Session, Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie, appointed as his guardian.

He later travelled to the Court of Session to be sworn in by the Lord President and receive the Great Seal of Scotland.

He was a noted advocate and served as Lord President of the Court of Session and as Lord Chancellor of Scotland.

In Scotland, all of these cases brought in the High Court of Justiciary are brought in the name of the Lord Advocate and will be tried on Indictment.

It reorganized the English court system to establish the High Court and the Court of Appeal and also originally provided for the abolition of the judicial functions of the House of Lords with respect to England but, under the act, it would have retained those functions in relation to Scotland and Ireland for the time being.

In January 1604, King James VI of Scotland and I of England convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England.

The British House of Lords, as the court of last appeal outside Scotland before the creation of the UK Supreme Court, was not strictly bound to always follow its own decisions until the case London Street Tramways v London County Council AC 375.

In Scotland, a Preliminary Hearing is a non-evidential diet in cases to be tried before the High Court of Justiciary.

The Judicial Committee consists of senior judges appointed as Privy Counsellors: Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, judges of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland, judges of the Inner House of the Court of Session ( the supreme civil court in Scotland ), and judges from various other Commonwealth member states.

Several senior judges — Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, judges of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland and judges of the Inner House of the Court of Session ( the highest court in Scotland )— are also named to the Privy Council.

Other recusant families, or branches thereof, include ( d ) Ainscough, Anne ( of Frickley ), Arden ( of Longcroft ), Arundell, Bedingfeld, Berkeley ( of Spetchley ), Blount, Blundell, Clifford ( of Chudleigh ; since 1673 ), Coates, Constable, Constable-Maxwell, Errington, Eyre, Eyston, Fairfax ( of Gilling ), Feilding, Fenwick, Fermor ( of Tusmore ), Fitzherbert ( of Swynnerton ), Fitzherbert-Brockholes, Fortescue-Turville, Gerard ( of Bryn ), Gillibrand, Gillow, Glover, Hesketh, Holden, Holman, Hornyold, Huddleston, Jerningham, Kerr ( Scotland ), De Lisle / de Lisle, Mattingly, Mockler-Barrett, Payne, Petre, Perkins ( of Ufton Court ), Riddell, Scarisbrick, Scrope ( of Bolton ), Smythe, Stonor, Stourton, Talbot, Tempest ( of Broughton ), Throckmorton, Towneley, de Trafford, Tichbourne, Trappes-Lomax ( Trappes of Nidd ), Tresham ( of Northamptonshire ), Vavasour ( of Hazlewood ), Ward, Waterton ( of Walton ), Weld, and Weld-Blundell.

* Court of Session, the supreme civil court of Scotland

In Scotland, it is the Sheriff Court or District Court, depending on the offence ( the latter being primarily for the most minor of offences ).

In December 1968, the Journal of Medical Genetics published the first XYY review article — by Michael Court Brown, director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit — which reported no overrepresentation of XYY males in nationwide chromosome surveys of prisons and hospitals for the developmentally disabled and mentally ill in Scotland, and concluded that studies confined to institutionalized XYY males may be guilty of selection bias, and that long-term longitudinal prospective studies of newborn XYY boys were needed.

The owner of a public relations firm owed no income tax on payments he received from a client company and `` kicked back '' to the company's advertising manager, the Tax Court ruled.

* 1690 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city ( in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday ).

The Court also ruled that the Minister of Defense is constitutionally not entitled to act in terrorism matters, as this is the duty of the state and federal police forces.

The Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that the defendant had voluntarily entered the guilty plea, with knowledge of what that meant.

Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.

The Court ruled that the defendant can enter such a plea " when he concludes that his interests require a guilty plea and the record strongly indicates guilt.

The Court went on to note that even if the defendant could have shown that he would not have entered a guilty plea " but for " the rationale of receiving a lesser sentence, the plea itself would not have been ruled invalid.

The Court ruled, " Although an Alford plea allows a defendant to plead guilty amid assertions of innocence, it does not require a court to accept those assertions.

In March 2009, U. S. District Court Judge Panner ruled in favor of the Santo Daime, acknowledging its protection from prosecution under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

A U. N. Court ruled genocide did not take place, but recognized, " a systematic campaign of terror, including murders, rapes, arsons and severe maltreatments ".

A provincial court ruled that the Lord's Day Act was unconstitutional, but the Crown proceeded to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

On April 6, 2006, in a case arising from a game involving community college baseball teams, the Supreme Court of California ruled that baseball players in California assume the risk of being hit by baseballs even if the balls were intentionally thrown so as to cause injury.

The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun on June 16, 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically modified microorganism could be patented in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty.

Late in 1971, BJU filed suit to prevent the IRS from taking its tax exemption, but in 1974, in Bob Jones University v. Simon, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the university did not have standing to sue until the IRS actually assessed taxes.

In December 1978, the federal district court ruled in the university's favor ; two years later, that decision was overturned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The case was heard on October 12, 1982, and on May 24, 1983, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in Bob Jones University v. United States ( 461 U. S. 574 ).

It is currently ruled by Cameroon following the transfer of sovereignty from neighbouring Nigeria as a result of a judgment by the International Court of Justice.

The Supreme Court let a 9th circuit decision stand, and Data General was eventually forced into licensing the Operating System software because it was ruled that restricting the license to only DG hardware was an illegal tying arrangement.

In a landmark case, the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) ruled on 5 July 1994 against the British practice of importing produce from northern Cyprus based on certificates of origin and phytosanitary certificates granted by the de facto authorities.

Those dates were chosen because in 1954 the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unlawful and 1968 is the year of Martin Luther King's assassination.

On January 27, 2009, in a lawsuit involving an accidental injury sustained during a cheerleading practice, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that cheerleading is a full-contact sport in that state.

Civil liberties groups challenged the law under the First Amendment and in 1997 the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.

In May 2010, the Washington State Supreme Court provided an opinion after it was asked to certify a question referred by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington: “ Whether a public library, consistent with Article I, § 5 of the Washington Constitution, may filter Internet access for all patrons without disabling Web sites containing constitutionally-protected speech upon the request of an adult library patron .” The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that NCRL ’ s internet filtering policy did not violate Article I, Section 5 of the Washington State Constitution.