On his way into the court room he was served with legal documents and a summons before proceedings even started.

According to Debretts, the proceedings on that day always started at 10pm.

Most legal hearings, however, may be freely reported once the proceedings have started.

Once proceedings start, the audience splits up into groups and each group goes to one of the presenters.

The Oral proceedings (starting from 7 November 1975 to 23.

It was one thing to recuse yourself before the proceedings started.

The latter did so just before the proceedings started, but Barney had still not put in an appearance.

I should like to know when these proceedings started, because there is a deadline involved.

We may well begin to talk about it before then, but formal proceedings cannot start until after ratification.

The proceedings eventually started, though there were still people outside trying to get inside.