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UNPUBLISHED CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE STATISTICS RE "NOT GUILTY" LONDON TRIAL VERDICTS

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  16. Mar. 2010. – 12:43:29 Arresting suspected criminals is the job of the Police. Bringing suspected criminals to court and offering evi...

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NO HALF MEASURES; IF YOU DRINK A TEASPOONFUL AND DRIVE YOU`RE GUILTY  15. Mar. 2010. – 16:05:41 Like every magistrate and judge I ...

NEED TO PEE IN CITY OF WESTMINSTER?

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  12. Mar. 2010. – 14:09:05 The capital's biggest ever crackdown on people urinating in the street saw 12 shamed-faced revellers face ...

VIRTUAL COURT MELTDOWN

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  12. Mar. 2010. – 12:48:22 I have written previously of virtual courts  based on the principle that taking justice away from the courtroom ...

NO SECURITY AT MAGISTRATES` COURTS

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  12. Mar. 2010. – 12:04:37 Hendon Magistrates Court is situated in North West London amidst private and council houses, offices, light in...

YET MORE CRIME STATISTICS BUT ARE WE ANY NEARER THE TRUTH?

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  09. Mar. 2010. – 11:13:01 My repeated comments on the need for respected audited crime statistics which would provide a solid base for d...

COURTS STAFF ON STRIKE

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 9  Mar. 2010. – 10:50:43 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) went on strike yesterday [continuing today]for the secon...

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...