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A PARALLEL COURTS SYSTEM

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    06. Mar. 2010. – 14:13:22 Courts of law are not the only places where the justice system operates. "Courts" held by many pro...

VENABLES, LEGALLY, MORALLY, PHILOSOPHICALLY, AND FINANCIALLY

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  06. Mar. 2010. – 12:19:34 Like many others involved directly with the legal system I`ve been thinking through the facts in the Venables ...

SELF INDUCED DRUNKEN SEMI CONSCIOUS ABUSIVE WORDS

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  05. Mar. 2010. – 11:24:29 Recent retiring room discussions reminded me of an interesting case on which I sat four or five years ago. A y...

MAGISTRATES SHOULD BE ABLE TO SIT PAST 70

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 03. Mar. 2010. – 19:15:29  It`s well known now that this is the age of the baby boomers; those fortunate enough to have been born between t...

MAGISTRATES & ANOTHER LABOUR INITIATIVE

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  03. Mar. 2010. – 14:23:41 Today the Home Secretary has announced another "government initiative"; The "Safe and Confident N...

VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS & NOW VICTIM SENTENCING

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  26. Feb. 2010. – 10:51:47 A system of criminal justice whether in Biblical times or England in the 17th or 21st century arises and devel...

POLICE CHIEF GONE MISSING

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  26. Feb. 2010. – 10:18:18 There are sometimes when one wonders how sub editors earn their pay. In today`s Leicester Mercury there is the...

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHOULD BE A STAND ALONE OFFENCE

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  25. Feb. 2010. – 16:25:54 Once again I want to mention statistics. The subject is now so vital to government and myriad organisations it...

POLICE PRAYERS REDUCE CRIME!?!? WHAT NEXT? GARLIC

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  23. Feb. 2010. – 11:42:31 When religion, its adherents, its trappings, its rituals and anything else similarly associated hits the headl...

FOR FINE DEFAULTERS WOULD ONE DAY IN CUSTODY FOR EVERY £ OWED REDUCE THE DEBT?

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22. Feb. 2010. – 16:04:40 Her Majesty`s Court Service should not be organised to make a profit. It is part of the justice system and without...

DANGEROUS DOGS ACTS 1991 & 1871

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  21. Feb. 2010. – 12:22:58 Owning a dog is a major responsibility although we can all recall incidents where such responsibility was appare...

THREE FAILED TRIALS BUT HE CAN STILL WALK OUT THE DOOR

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 . Feb. 2010. – 16:25:07  There are many reasons put forward why Peter Blake at his fourth history making trial by a judge without jury was ...

JUST A WHIM BUT GOOD LUCK BARRY MAGISTRATES

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  19. Feb. 2010. – 16:07:37 The mantra of so many organisations especially within the civil service is "centralise" or "big...

ARE JURIES AS FAIR AS THEY COULD BE?

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17. Feb. 2010. – 12:49:26  The Document recently published  "Are Juries Fair?" has quite correctly had massive exposure in the med...

BECOME A J.P. WE DON`T NEED TO KNOW IF YOU`RE A FREEMASON

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  15. Feb. 2010. – 16:55:52 A few years ago........about ten or so...........when applying to be appointed as a Justice of the Peace a can...

EAST ENDERS MORE VIOLENT THAN THE WILD WEST

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  14. Feb. 2010. – 17:11:25 Since its availability to the whole population there has been a continuing discussion whether watching violenc...

A SCOTTISH "ALCATRAZ"

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  13. Feb. 2010. – 14:56:02 There is increasing confusion of whether or not the Ministry of Justice has persuaded or succeeded in that persu...

DO CRIMINALS HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO COMMIT CRIME?

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    12. Feb. 2010. – 12:27:04 The debate about whether "nature or nurture" has the most effect upon our personality and behaviou...

WHEN DETERRENT SENTENCES ARE A WASTE OF TIME

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 12. Feb. 2010. – 14:15:33  On 11th January I commented on the reduction in local court reporting; LOCAL COURT REPORTS ARE A THING OF THE PA...

DEVON & CORNWALL POLICE ARE AN EXAMPLE TO THE MET.

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  11. Feb. 2010. – 11:18:41 On 6th February I commented on the police chief in Hounslow blaming magistrates` courts for the high rate of b...

BREACH OR NO BREACH? YOU COUDN`T MAKE IT UP

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  09. Feb. 2010. – 11:54:33   If ever there was a situation where accurate up to date information must be readily available it is on the...

A PRAYER MAT or a FLYING CARPET to GET OUT of JAIL

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  05. Feb. 2010. – 12:47:04 It seems that the wife of our former dear leader has opened her mouth once again a little too wide. A few year...

WHEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HITS THE BUFFERS

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  05. Feb. 2010. – 11:35:46 "It`s just a domestic". Not so long ago that was the response in many cases when a woman [usually] c...

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, ...