A MAGISTRATE`S DIARY

Volume 1 2009-2010 of my previously unpublished diaries with my observations and opinions of the law and justice

A MAGISTRATE`S DIARY

Volume 1 2009-2010 of my previously unpublished diaries with my observations and opinions of the law and justice

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HAVE THE LAST 12 YEARS BEEN BENEFICIAL TO LIBERTY?

Since 1997 although many good people disagree we have been subject to a "nanny knows best" basis of much legislation. Several Lord...

DOES DARWINISM APPLY TO A CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM?

28. Nov. 2009. – 12:33:21 It was Charles Darwin one hundred and fifty years ago who postulated that for living things the world is as it i...

DOES THIS GOVERNMENT REALLY WANT TO RETAIN THE OFFICE OF MAGISTRATE?

27. Nov. 2009. – 13:06:39 Over 90% of criminal cases in this country are undertaken from plea to sentence at the Magistrates` Courts. For ov...

ACPO AND PROPOSED POLICE RESTRUCTURING

23. Nov. 2009. – 12:13:02 Sir Hugh Orde, president of ACPO wrote recently in The Times with his recommendations for a restructuring of po...

• IS IT TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO EITHER WAY OFFENCES?

21. Nov. 2009. – 14:18:34 Long before the recent financial debacle which the citizenry of this country will be paying for twenty years f...

CAUTION GIVEN AFTER A CONVICTION FOR SIMILAR OFFENCE

19. Nov. 2009. – 17:48:33 Problems within the criminal justice system generally make the headlines on the relatively limited occasions w...

HOW I BEGAN

INTRODUCTION My latent interest in the law was perhaps instigated by both a wife and brother who were solicitors and a father who felt...

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I retired from the magistracy in 2015 after 17 years mainly as a presiding justice

A MAGISTRATE`S DIARIES: United Kingdom; My current blog can be accessed at https://thejusticeofthepeaceblog.blogspot.com/

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