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  • Legal question: If a couple divorces in Bovill, are they still brother and sister?

    Think Progress » Foley scandal report could be released today. 2006

  • Referring more specifically to medical expert witness, in England, Bovill, Chief Justice, observed-again quoting verbatim - "The great misfortune, or defect, hitherto has been that medical men, like any other professional men, have been too much in the habit of making themselves partisans in endeavouring to support the particular views of the parties on whose behalf they have been called, and this has led to conflict of opinion not very creditable to the profession."

    Medical Evidence in a Court of Law 1957

  • Mr. Justice Coleridge presided at the trial, Mr. (afterwards Lord-Justice) Bovill appeared for the claimant, and Sir Frederick Thesiger represented the defendant.

    Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

  • Captain Bovill, who liked not the dark brothers, would have made him prisoner, for he thought him a forerunner of a Spanish force, but he held up a ghostly hand and all of us were struck with a palsy of silence.

    The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

  • A Spanish sword was like to have cleft my skull, but before I lost my senses I noted Captain Bovill tearing the chart in shreds and using them to hold down the last charges for his matchlock.

    The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

  • I can hear yet Captain Bovill asking very gently of this greater treasure-house, and I can hear the priest, like one in a trance, speaking high and strange.

    The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

  • Instead of leading, therefore, in the case before Chief Justice Bovill, I had to perform whatever duties Coleridge assigned to me.

    The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins Brampton, Henry H 1904

  • The action of ejectment was tried before Chief Justice Bovill at the Common Pleas, Westminster.

    The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins Brampton, Henry H 1904

  • Lizzy Bovill, of London Ambulance Service, told the BBC that the problem meant "patients wait unnecessarily on ambulance trolleys and in corridors" and prevented crews from responding to other calls.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • Sue Bovill, lead nurse at the Encompass walk-in centre, added: "Odyssey SelfAssess made patients more aware of the questions we may ask so answers were already prepared, making consultations faster."

    E-Health Insider Primary Care News 2010

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