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END OF DAYS FOR MAGISTRATES?

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  02. Feb. 2010. – 12:41:38 In February 2005 Magistrates' Courts lost the power to deal with liquor licenses ie pubs, clubs, restauran...

WHO RUNS PRISONS? INMATES, EMPLOYEES OR THE GOVERNMENT

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  31. Jan. 2010. – 15:10:02 There are three constituent parts of any criminal justice system, the process of catching suspected offenders, ...

P.DOHERTY,13 WRAPS of HEROIN & £750 FINE

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  30. Jan. 2010. – 14:53:07 There`s an old well used phrase, "everyone`s equal but some are more equal than others". Where this ...

AN UNUSUAL DAY IN COURT

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  29. Jan. 2010. – 16:53:46 It`s bit like waiting for a bus on a rainy night; none comes for ages and then three at once. I suppose many j...

TAKE "GOOD" BABIES FROM EVIL PARENTS?

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  26. Jan. 2010. – 14:31:54 Generally it has been considered in the balance between "nature" and "nurture" that a baby e...

SOUTH AFRICA, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, FARENHEIT 451?

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  25. Jan. 2010. – 14:47:25 Many thousands of pages have been written about the situation when the "rock" of the freedom of public...

"STOP AND SEARCH" or SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND

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  25 Jan. 2010. – 12:11:15 There are lies, damned lies and statistics. This phrase of uncertain lineage has been around for over a century...

IT`S NOT WHAT YOU SAY; IT`S WHAT YOU MEAN. SOME PERSONAL HUMOUR

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  22. Jan. 2010. – 16:27:20 How often in general discussion do we ask for a remark to be repeated because although we heard what was being...

CRIMINAL JUSTICE NORFOLK STYLE

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  22. Jan. 2010. – 15:52:24 Every part of government expenditure is being closely examined in order to determine where savings can be made...

MAGISTRATES & OPERATION BLACK VOTE

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  22. Jan. 2010. – 13:41:24 In our country there are some who say that all appointed officials whether they are school governors, members ...

PERJURY AND THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

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  21. Jan. 2010. – 12:01:21 It`s not very often that a charge of Perjury follows from proceedings at a Magistrates` court. But for a Mr Pl...

TRULY THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE CIVIL SERVICE ASYLUM

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  21. Jan. 2010. – 11:17:54 The security of magistrates across Norfolk has been compromised after their personal contact details were mist...

ARNDALE CENTRE CRIME; ARNDALE CENTRE COURT

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 20. Jan. 2010. – 14:35:42  At various times in the 650 year old history of the institution of local Magistrates the post itself has been br...

BLOWING A TRUMPET FOR MAGISTRATES

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  19. Jan. 2010. – 12:42:26 The higher the public profile and the greater the responsibility the more an individual has to jump the hurdle...

TO CAUTION OR NOT TO CAUTION? THAT IS THE CHOICE

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  17. Jan. 2010. – 17:05:37 Much has been made of the supposed caution given to "TV personality" Myleene Klass. Whether or not ...

A STRANGE APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT

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  17. Jan. 2010. – 17:05:37 Quoted below is a report published today in the Huddersfield Examiner Cans of beer seized from a Huddersfield sh...

UNFORGETTABLE COURT MOMENTS

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 14. Jan. 2010. – 12:21:44  Over the years the utterings of those in court, officers as well as defendants, can stretch one`s tolerance but ...

NOT JUDGE & JURY BUT JUDGE OR JURY

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  12. Jan. 2010. – 15:04:26  In 1973 in Northern Ireland at the height of "the troubles" Diplock courts were established. In these...

LOCAL COURT REPORTS ARE A THING OF THE PAST

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  11. Jan. 2010. – 13:21:49 "Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done." This well known comment was made b...

ENGLISH LEGAL PRACTICE OR THE TALIBAN`S VERSION OF LAW?

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  09. Jan. 2010. – 12:12:24 There is a simple question to be answered which is the basis of today`s observations. And that question is wheth...

ONE FINE FOR HARIET HARMAN {THEM} AND ONE FOR US

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  08. Jan. 2010. – 14:30:02 It is perhaps unwise to comment on particular cases in the public eye particularly when full knowledge is unav...

REDUCE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR OFFENDERS

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  06. Jan. 2010. – 14:49:22 Some years ago sitting in a court room of a small town in America`s Deep South I witnessed two chained up misc...

VICTIM SURCHARGE

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  03. Jan. 2010. – 15:53:15 It seems to this observer that the government with grand owl Gordon on the top branch has made himself more of a...

LONDON BUSES AND FARE DODGERS

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  24. Dec. 2009. – 12:48:23 When a convicted murderer is released early from his/her sentence owing to doubts about his/her guilt we all r...

DECRIMINALISATION OF HARD DRUGS

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  21. Dec. 2009. – 10:12:02 Today`s observations are not meant as a root and branch investigation into a statistical analysis of all the a...