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CASE MANAGEMENT HEARINGS ARE STILL AN OPTION OR ARE THEY?

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 30. Nov. 2010. – 10:55:38 Case Management Hearings do what it says on the box. I was surprised therefore a coup...

TODAY`S COURT RESULT: KINGSTON 1 DEPT OF JUSTICE NIL

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 29. Nov. 2010. – 15:17:37 Those involved in almost every magistrates` court threatened with closure have been m...

MORE ON ASBOs

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 29. Nov. 2010. – 14:22:29 Any policy groups that are considering the establishment of a new policy or organisat...

KIDS AND GUNS

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 27. Nov. 2010. – 13:44:37 The law is a wonderful concept or so we are led to believe. It has evolved through mi...

LORD MOSES AND JURIES

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by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 26. Nov. 2010. – 08:11:56 It seems that the subject of judges and juries is going to be hotly debated from now on...

DISINTEREST

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 25. Nov. 2010. – 23:47:32 I don`t usually sit at the keyboard at approaching midnight but I make an exception h...

ELECTION OF BENCH TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

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by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 25. Nov. 2010. – 14:13:44 The Magistracy is trumpeted as being a uniquely English institution allowing local just...

GO ORDERS

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 25. Nov. 2010. – 09:45:38 In various forms domestic violence appears to have occurred as a primary or secondary...

UTILISATION RATE, UTILASATION RATE, UTILISATION RATE….REPEAT IT OFTEN ENOUGH AND ALL WILL BE WELL

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 24. Nov. 2010. – 16:07:58 The Justice Department and its ministers are at it again in repeating the mantra oft ...

I WILL NOT BE ATTENDING THE BENCH CHRISTMAS PARTY

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 23. Nov. 2010. – 15:31:25 In my other life where I tried hard to make an honest penny I was the one who authori...

THE £COSTS OF BEING A MURDERER

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 22. Nov. 2010. – 16:03:37 Not being a crown court practitioner I am unaware of the legal niceties involved in g...

THE HARD MEN OF CARLISLE

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 22. Nov. 2010. – 15:24:02 There were interesting goings on recently at Carlisle Crown Court. In an area famous ...

COURTS NEWS//CAMBERWELL`S VIRTUALLY NOT SO WELL

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 22. Nov. 2010. – 15:16:37 Virtual Courts are controversial. The principle of having courts in police stations h...

LORD PHILLIPS OFFERS SUPPORT TO MAGISTRATES

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 22. Nov. 2010. – 14:21:54 A former Chief Justice of England is a good person to have on one`s side when the opp...

NO MORE RUNNERS AT BOW STREET

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 22. Nov. 2010. – 08:48:03 Its square was orange in colour and it could be bought for £180. When I played Monopo...

LORD JUDGE AND JURIES

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 21. Nov. 2010. – 12:46:16 There has been much attention paid to Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice and the judiciar...

TRAINING OR INDOCTRINATION?

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 20. Nov. 2010. – 12:25:05 There has been recently a mayoral election in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Th...

THE TALE OF CONAN THE DAMAGER

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 19. Nov. 2010. – 05:29:49 Since I was appointed, only when my court sittings have been exceptionally interestin...

ONE YEAR OLD TODAY

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 19. Nov. 2010. – 05:19:12 I began this blog exactly one year ago today. Its inspiration was that a previous lit...

DESIGNATED PUBLIC PLACE ORDER

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 17. Nov. 2010. – 18:52:16 It can be taken as said that the rise in alcohol consumption especially by young peop...

ASSAULT IN A DOMESTIC CONTEXT…..NOT A PRETTY SIGHT

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 15. Nov. 2010. – 11:13:30 Intimate relationships are just that…….intimate……..definition; closely personal gener...

EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW BUT APPARANTLY NOT PAUL GASCOIGNE

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 14. Nov. 2010. – 12:01:40 High profile cases at magistrates` courts usually make some sort of news; at a local ...

"P" PLATES CAN P*** OFF

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 13. Nov. 2010. – 12:58:11 One would have thought that a representative body faced with the most radical shake u...

UNPAID FINES

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 12. Nov. 2010. – 08:12:09 I`ve posted in the past on unpaid fines which currently total around £500 million and...

VACANT and VACATED

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 11. Nov. 2010. – 12:56:44 A full day`s sitting last month did not seem to hold any surprises when I consulted t...