courts

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Courts are currently required to consider issuing a Parenting Order where a child under 16 has been convicted of an offence.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Courts have also punished corporate outsiders who gleaned lucrative information from insiders.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Courts use formal standards of proof depending on the stakes, such as probable cause, preponderance of the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Courts infer intent every day from what people do, from the consequences they know will follow, from patterns that repeat with such consistency that coincidence is no longer a plausible explanation.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

Maybe you’ll return to warring with smaller Seelie and Unseelie Courts.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black