Subpoena

Definition

subpoena /sǝ'pi:nǝ/ n ( law ) တရား႐ံုးလာေရာက္ရန္ ဆင့္စာ။ သမၼန္စာ။ serve a subpoena on a witness. v တရား႐ံုးလာေရာက္ရန္ ဆင့္ေခၚသည္။ သမၼန္စာ ခ်သည္။ The court subpoenaed her (to appear) as a witness.

Examples

1. ‘Further
2. the day-to-day administration of criminal justice functions with many witnesses who are not under subpoena and who attend voluntarily to give evidence.’
3. ‘It held that if an individual does not comply with a subpoena or order issued by the Tribunal
4. he could be held in contempt of the Tribunal and the specific contempt procedure could be set in motion.’
5. ‘Complex legal standards apply to the level of review and judicial oversight necessary before police can obtain the warrants
6. subpoenas
7. or court orders required to compel disclosure of these records.’
8. ‘Under normal law
9. a plaintiff would file a lawsuit against an offending party and then use the court system to get subpoenas or court orders for information relevant to the lawsuit.’
10. ‘Even if it is a US bank which is ordered by a US subpoena
11. other common law courts have applied traditional conflict-of-laws analysis.’
12. ‘In addition
13. in July several people were subpoenaed to testify about their protest activities before a grand jury convened in Missouri.’
14. ‘A Victorian coroner has subpoenaed the man acquitted of one the State's most notorious murders to give evidence at another inquest into the death.’
15. ‘The defence could have subpoenaed him but they could not force him to talk to them.’
16. ‘The appellant was unable to subpoena the necessary witnesses.’
17. ‘Your office could do more
18. the witnesses were not subpoenaed and brought along
19. and the magistrate is sure to have plenty to do.’
20. ‘Criminal defendants
21. like civil defendants
22. should be able to freely conduct depositions
23. subpoena documents and witnesses
24. and serve interrogatories.’
25. ‘My learned friend took you to an early stage of the proceedings where the accused had subpoenaed documents.’
26. ‘I wish to subpoena documents from the Medical Board of Victoria…’
27. ‘It doesn't have the power to subpoena documents
28. evidence
29. or testimony
30. either.’
31. ‘The grand jury subpoenaed documents from Condit last year.’