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LICENSING ACT 2003,s.146 ALCOHOL SALES TO CHILDREN

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 14. Jul. 2010. – 12:27:13  Alcohol has been part of man`s cultural tradition before he realised what “culture” meant. The discovery of late...

THE WISDOM OF AGE AND BODY OF YOUTH

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 13. Jul. 2010. – 08:52:44  I`ve been a JP for a while. Unlike many of my colleagues who post their opinions on the Magistrates` Forum I`m ...

CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND LICENSING BILL SCOTLAND

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 12. Jul. 2010. – 11:39:12  I have previously blogged here that legal processes in Scotland are often more soundly based and applicable to t...

SHOULD UK POLICE BE ROUTINELY ARMED?

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 11. Jul. 2010. – 13:41:13  There was a semi interesting accompaniment to my coffee and toast this morning on BBC 1 TV where during a discus...

MAGISTRATES` ASSOCIATION IS UNREPRESENTATIVE OF JPs

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 10. Jul. 2010. – 13:27:12  The Magistrates` Association is an unusual organisation insofar as its membership does not join by virtue of exa...

BORN 1360 AND NOT GOING SO STRONG

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 08. Jul. 2010. – 21:11:21  Justices of the Peace have their 650th birthday this year. We must have been a good idea to have lasted so long....

LEGAL AID DENIED AT MAGISTRATES` COURT INCREASES LEGAL AID COSTS AT CROWN COURT APPEAL

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 @ 08. Jul. 2010. – 16:12:11  Applications for legal aid for appeals at Crown Court have to be made at the Magistrates` Court where the orig...

THE £BILLION SCANDAL OF UNPAID FINES

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  07. Jul. 2010. – 16:13:09 I had hoped to avoid any post that had even the most distant relationship to the short sentences debate but li...

THE SPURIOUS ARITHMETIC BEHIND COURT CLOSURES

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 07. Jul. 2010. – 14:33:23  It is only a few years since Magistrates` Courts [and others] have been run under the banner of Her Majesty`s Co...

MINIMUM DRINK DRIVING BAN & THE MAGISTRATES` ASSOCIATION

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 05. Jul. 2010. – 16:39:31  There was published recently Sir Peter North`s Review of Drink and Drug Driving Law. An important point in his ...

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

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  03. Jul. 2010. – 14:57:40 When a friend of mine was complaining not so long ago about the cock up various train companies had caused him f...

ASBOs, DISPERAL ORDERS, DRINK BANNING ORDERS; WHAT NEXT? WHAT USE?

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 02. Jul. 2010. – 13:19:01  I do not sit on the youth bench. It was a conscious decision. I have nothing but admiration for my colleagues wh...

JPs and PUBLIC COMMENT on COURT CLOSURES

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 01. Jul. 2010. – 11:56:31  Not surprisingly media in all its forms have been occupied with two coincident policy announcements from the Min...

KENNETH CLARKE TAKES NO PRISONERS

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 30. Jun. 2010. – 16:40:37  In order to achieve maximum publicity for his tirade against short prison sentences Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP QC ...

ARE MET POLICE GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE?

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 28. Jun. 2010. – 08:45:30  Scotland Yard in an apparent return to old fashioned practices is causing consternation inside and outside the r...

ALCOHOL SALES TO UNDER AGE DRINKERS

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 24. Jun. 2010. – 12:24:05  Depending on which statistics are perused drugs and alcohol are the root cause of "much", "many...

FOREIGN PRISONS & FOREIGN PRISONERS

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  23. Jun. 2010. – 14:54:09 Five accused men lost their appeal today against extradition to Greece to stand trial. Amongst other reasons ...

MAGISTRATES` ASSOCIATION NEEDS TO BE PRO-ACTIVE

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 22. Jun. 2010. – 16:18:05  In previous comments I have sympathised with the difficulties the Magistrates` Association experiences when the ...

MAGISTRATES NEED LAWYERS` SUPPORT TO RETAIN FUNCTION

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  21. Jun. 2010. – 12:27:00 When major participants within the criminal justice system issue press releases on contentious issues one can ...

CROWN COURT SITTINGS

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. Jun. 2010. – 13:19:47   It had been a while since I had sat on an appeal at Crown Court. Outside the legal profession very few people are ...

DRINK/DRIVING LIMIT LOWERED TO 10mg ALCOHOL/100ml BLOOD:A BRIEF ARGUMENT IN FAVOUR

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 17. Jun. 2010. – 11:54:24  According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Sir Peter North has recommended cutting the drink-drive limit from...

BREACH COURTS LEAD TO JAIL FOR SOME

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 16. Jun. 2010. – 15:31:04  About a month ago a friend who lives a couple of hundred miles away and whose twenty something daughter was know...

SHORT SENTENCES ARE NOT TO BE DISPOSED OF

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  14. Jun. 2010. – 16:05:31 I am somewhat disturbed to read today that Secretary of State for Justice Kenneth Clarke has indicated that he...

JUSTICE SEEN TO BE DONE BY "TIME SERVED"

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  11. Jun. 2010. – 11:13:10 Jacob, whose immigration status was unclear, had arrived here two or three years ago from a central African co...

STUDENT LAW BREAKERS AND VERY SEVERE CONSEQUENCES

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  10. Jun. 2010. – 13:29:27 The notorious Harold Shipman whose name will live alongside Crippen in the annals of rogue medical murderers ....