go to law

go to law

To bring an issue to the court system. Primarily heard in UK. I think you'll have to go to law to finally settle this dispute with your neighbor.
See also: go, law
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go to ˈlaw

(British English) ask a court of law to settle a problem or disagreement: They went to law to get their property back.
See also: go, law
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • chip
  • chips
  • up on (one's) ear
  • Two Bob
  • (as) dead as mutton
  • dead as mutton
  • mutton
  • one of the boys
  • one of the lads
  • be one of the lads
References in classic literature
It is impossible for us to go to law, as you propose, on the subject of the Will.
He would have got a good picking out of it; but I have no relation now who is a lawyer, and why should I go to law for the benefit of strangers?" "Nay, to be sure," answered she, "you must know best." "I believe I do," replied he.
It's well known there's always two sides, if no more; else who'd go to law, I should like to know?
Whether you go to law with me or not, you will surely feel the necessity of communicating personally with your friends in Canada.
I shall consult my friends--and," she added, mentally, "go to law with you afterward, if I possibly can, with your own money!"
And thus our youth, having been educated only in that simple music which, as we said, inspires temperance, will be reluctant to go to law.
I am not a clerk of the court, and I shall not go to law with you for thus carrying a dagger in Paris, in the teeth of the ordinances and prohibitions of M.
'You didn't go to law, I hope?' said Sam suspiciously.
They asserted that they would go to law court for getting their rights against the district administration Mirpurkhas.
Now we have what is called core courses that any student of law must take before they will be qualified to go to Law School but no Islamic law course is among.
At that time, I decided to go to law school, so I started law school in 1986 and graduated in 1990.
"I had this life-changing moment and decided I didn't want to go to law school [and] live that litigious life; I'd much rather do something that really makes a difference," Ms.
She majored in journalism before deciding to go to law school.<br />"I went to law school initially by accident, but I quickly became fascinated by the stories in case books which appealed to the writer in me," said Weigold, who is now director of legal research and writing, as well as a clinical associate professor, at the University of Wisconsin Law School.<br />"I also had many wonderful law school professors that again reminded me what a difference a great teacher could make to a student's learning," said Weigold.<br />After graduating from the University of Texas Law School, she started her legal career at the Texas Court of Appeals.
Arab News Little Mila describes her first day at preschool (YouTube) Mila, 2, says she wanted to go to law school, but her Mom was having none of it.
I have watched for the last 40 years as people go to law school as a career choice and as a ticket to the upper-middle class.