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(law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law
courts having jurisdiction in this district
How To Use legal power In A Sentence
- The tribunal has no legal power to compel his attendance. Times, Sunday Times
- The stick and the fist backed up the array of legal powers.
- The tribunal has no legal power to compel his attendance. Times, Sunday Times
- Had this tribunal the legal power and authority to try and punish this man?
- Legal powers agreed in 1990 allow officers to enter properties and turn off alarms if the owner fails to do so.
- The government has limited legal powers over television.
- Legal experts have highlighted the fact that the tribunal has no legal powers to compel Mr Kennedy to attend the hearing of the planning inquiry because of his non-resident status in Ireland.
- Body other than a central government body or a local government body, including a non-governmental body which has legal power to enforce a technical regulation.
- New legal powers to force witnesses to give evidence to select committees under oath. Times, Sunday Times
- The GMC had been asked for information but inquiry chairman Suzan Matthews decided it would speed the process if she exercised her legal powers.
