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show cause Law Produce satisfactory grounds for application of (or exemption from) a procedure or penalty: a notice to show cause why there should not be a committal to prison [attributive]: show-cause notice...- In January 1994 the auditor published his provisional findings and the notices to show cause why the ten persons should not be surcharged.
- On 3 June 1999 the Board wrote to Mr and Mrs Mann requiring them to show cause within 14 days why their legal aid certificates should not be revoked.
- The draft order nisi that has been filed specifies five grounds on which the respondents are to be called on to show cause.
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