1.   Cross-examination by defence lawyers should also be videotaped at an informal hearing before trial, with the press and public excluded.

2.   He faces a hearing before a magistrate on Friday.

3.   The absolute right of an editor or journalist to opt for a personal hearing before a complaints committee would be removed.

4.   Previously, all patent litigation, other than hearings before the Comptroller, was dealt with in the Chancery Division of the High Court.

5.   The directions appointment is a form of preliminary hearing before a single justice or clerk in the family proceedings court and a district judge in the county court.

6.   The sanction of cold-shouldering was imposed for the first time in relation to Dundee Football Club after hearings before the full Panel and the Appeal Committee.

7.   A hearing before the full Panel can generally be arranged within four days.

8.   Hodkinson spoke only once during the hearing before magistrates at Bootle near Liverpool, giving his address as Beattock Close, Melling, Merseyside.

9.   Since then, there has been the three-day hearing before Mr Coutts, and the two-day appeal.

10.   Liverpool City Council leader Harry Rimmer made a strong pitch for the region at a special hearing before a European Parliament committee examining the problems of large urban areas.