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 ).

Additionally, if a Defendant has been charged on an indictment with assault occasioning actual bodily harm ( ABH ), or racially / religiously aggravated assault, then a jury in the Crown Court may acquit the Defendant of the more serious offence, but still convict of common assault if it finds common assault has been committed.

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.

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.

For an appeal from an acquittal to be successful, the Supreme Court of Canada requires that the Crown show that an error in law was made during the trial and that the error contributed to the verdict.

In a 1998 trial James McArdle was imprisoned for 25 years after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court that ended on June 24.

On this occasion, the Southern Court abducted Retired ( Northern ) Emperors Emperor Kōgon and Emperor Kōmyō as well as Emperor Sukō and the Crown Prince, Imperial Prince Naohito, the son of Emperor Kōgon, from Kyoto to Yoshino, producing a state of affairs in which there was no Emperor in Kyoto.

All proceedings on indictment must be brought before the Crown Court.

The Court of General Gaol Delivery is the criminal court for serious offences ( effectively the equivalent of a Crown Court in England ).

An either way offence allows the defendant to elect between trial by jury on indictment in the Crown Court and summary trial in the Magistrates ' Court.

Some offences such as murder and rape are considered so serious that they can only be tried on indictment at the Crown Court where the widest range of sentencing powers is available to the judge.

When the accused is charged with an indictable only offence, he is sent to the Crown Court for trial.

Middle-ranking (" triable either way ") offences may be tried by magistrates or the defendant may elect trial by jury in the Crown Court.

Serious (" indictable ") offences, however, must be tried before a jury in the Crown Court.

Many auto camps were used as havens and hide-outs for criminals of the 1920s ; Bonnie and Clyde had a shootout in the infamous Red Crown Tourist Court near Kansas City on July 20, 1933.

However, although this is not conducting a plea bargain, in cases before the Crown Court, the defence can request an indication from the judge of the likely maximum sentence that would be imposed should the defendant decide to plead guilty.

In the case of hybrid offences in England and Wales, the decision whether to deal with a case in Magistrates Court or Crown Court is not made by magistrates until after a plea has been entered.

In UK law, appeals to the Crown Court against convictions in the Magistrates Court are held de novo.

The Courts of England and Wales are headed by the Senior Courts of England and Wales, consisting of the Court of Appeal, the High Court of Justice ( for civil cases ) and the Crown Court ( for criminal cases ).

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

The duty of the Crown towards its subjects is to govern and protect.

The reciprocal duty of the subject towards the Crown is that of allegiance.

* 1810 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

The Crown is represented by the Governor-General in the government of the ACT.

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has been more explicitly a state church and the choice is legally that of the British crown ; today it is made in the name of the Sovereign by the Prime Minister, from a shortlist of two selected by an ad hoc committee called the Crown Nominations Commission.

Today the choice is made in the name of the monarch by the prime minister, from a shortlist of two selected by an ad-hoc committee called the Crown Nominations Commission.

The Crown may choose to grant the petition, but if there is any doubt whatsoever as to the pedigree of the petitioner, the claim is normally referred to the Committee for Privileges.

The football stadium is called the Crown Ground.

Boulder, Colorado is legendary with bouldering opportunities and fierce clean climbing ethic, particularly in the Crown Rocks area featuring notable first bouldering ascents by John Gill, Chuck Pratt and Pat Ament.

Crown Green Bowls is very popular mostly in the North of England but also in Wales, West Midlands and Shropshire.

The Panel ( Professional Crown Green Bowls ) is played at the Red Lion, Westhoughton daily and is played to 41-up with greenside betting throughout play.

The game of Crown Green Bowls is looking to grow with the introduction of the Portuguese Masters in October and recent interest from Sky TV to re-televise the sport.

It remains the private property of the monarch, and is not part of the Crown Estate.

Balmoral is a private property and, unlike the monarch's official residences, is not part of the state-owned Crown Estate.

It was formerly the county town of Cornwall until the Crown Courts moved to Truro which is also the administrative centre ( before 1835 the county town was Launceston ).

Government lawyers scripted a legal pretext, in that the superior of a religious house ( abbot, abbess, prior or prioress ) was the " owner " of the monastic property of the house and hence, if the superior were to be convicted of treason, all the property of the abbey would legally revert to the Crown.

The Court of Appeal consists of two divisions: the Civil Division hears appeals from the High Court and County Court and certain superior tribunals, while the Criminal Division may only hear appeals from the Crown Court connected with a trial on indictment ( i. e., for a serious offence ).

The Crown Court is the only court in England and Wales that has the jurisdiction to try cases on indictment and when exercising such a role it is a superior court in that its judgments cannot be reviewed by the Administrative Court of the Queen ’ s Bench Division of the High Court.

In England and Wales, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the Crown Court are all superior courts of record.

Therefore, Finegal was already a superior lordship ( or paramount barony ) when originally granted, consisting of lesser baronies ( and their several manors ), even though some of these may have been granted by Hugh in his capacities as Bailiff or as Viceroy, and later confirmed as held of the Crown in capite, and in perpetuity.

Maupeou installed the council of state to administer justice pending the establishment of six superior courts in the provinces, and of a new parlement in Paris, in which the magistrature would no longer be a hereditary prorogative but become salaried officials appointed by the Crown.

* In the movie The Thomas Crown Affair, one of the characters poses over the telephone as a museum guard's superior in order to move the guard away from his post.

In theory, this meant that the land was held under The Crown as ultimate feudal superior.

Simon Templar and his associate, Roger Conway, have been spending much of that time chasing Marius and his superior, Prince Rudolf ( Crown Prince of an unidentified country ) across Europe.

According to the 1768 office hierarchy, the stolniks position in the Crown of Poland was superior to that of podczaszy and inferior to that of District Judge ( Crown of Poland ); in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, superior to podstoli and inferior to wojski.

“ A coat of arms, quarted, the first quarter colored the color of blood and in it a gauntlet as a symbol that you took said King of France, and a royal Crown of gold above of said gauntlet ; and in the lower quarter, a blue field with three gold fleur-de-lis which are the true arms of the Kings of France ; and in the right quarter with the field colored as the superior quarter and in it the brocade decorated with its crosses ; and the left quarter, likewise colored, and in it the said standard of the Most Serene King of Hungary with the arms of Our Duchy of Burgundy .”

In modern times, the Prince remains paramount superior in these lands ( whilst The Crown serves this role in the rest of Scotland ).

In the build up to the 1989 Triple Crown, a rivalry developed between the West-Coast Sunday Silence and American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse Easy Goer, an East-Coast Thoroughbred with superior breeding.