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Magistrates who sit in Youth Courts or on domestic court panels receive additional training, as do magistrates who wish to become court chairmen. As new laws dealing with sentencing are passed, it is inevitable that more resources will be r...
Magistrates Courts are the court of first instance for all criminal offences in England and Wales. The court has local jurisdiction to hear cases where the offence occurred in the local area. The Magistrates Court is also the summary court,...
A 'stipe' gets paid. (The pay given to Magistrates is called a "stipend", which is where the term "Stipendiary" comes from.) In some countries, a stipendiary magistrate has to be a lawyer. Richard
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Advantages and disadvantages of having lay people as judges in the criminal justice system. Jury impropriety and how the courts have responded to this impropriety
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Magistrates are volunteers chosen by the home office to sit in the magistrates court as a team of three. They have no legal knowledge and take advice from the court usher who is legally qualified Magistrates are upstanding memebers of the c...
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Taking into account the stipendiary issue, the transfer of powers to clerks and individuals outside the courts, increased training and travelling demands, reduction of Crown Court service opportunities, under-staffing and administrative ine...
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The M.C. is the Military Cross, an award created in 1914 for acts of exemplary gallantry during active operations against the enemy and at that time given only to officers of the rank of captain or below. Approximately 37,000 Military Cross...
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MRS BOOYSE : Yes, I did report the case and the policeman said he is waiting for the stone. I could not continue. I tried to get his Death Certificate, then I was told to pay R6-00 and they gave me the Death Certificate.
http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/hrvtrans/cradock/booyse.htm
Very contentious question - as far as possible any legal system should be accessible and comprehensible to the population it protects and applies to, and the lay magistrate system and jury system are, at least ostensibly, part of that philo...
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As a magistrate, you will sit in your local magistrates' court dealing with a wide range of less serious criminal cases and civil matters. Magistrates sit on a 'bench' of three (an experienced chairman with two other magistrates) and are ac...
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