11.  The trial could set an important precedent for dealing with large numbers of similar cases.

12.  The scandal represented the latest and most serious of a string of similar cases involving false deposit certificates.

13.  A reference was also necessary since it was possible that a similar case might arise in the public sector of employment where the Directive would have direct effect.

14.  The defendants had not relied on the clause but had reached a negotiated settlement in similar prior cases.

15.  All over Eastern Europe similar cases could be found, and a similar state of affairs probably holds sway elsewhere.

16.  This is expected to be the first of many similar cases to come to light as local councils draw up registers of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act.

17.  The court at first instance can always distinguish except in very similar cases, and appeal is not easy unless a judgment is so unreasonable as to be perverse.

18.  These standards have been evolved from such current consensus of damage-awarding tribunals as is manifested by the amounts they have in fact awarded in broadly similar cases.

19.  But to decide where a proper award lies within a given bracket will still, we believe, require consideration of previous awards in similar cases.

20.  He is expected to be dead by then but his action could open the way for thousands of similar cases worldwide.