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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: AN ASSAULT TOO FAR?

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 03. Aug. 2010. – 08:52:18  For the last three or four years there has been a concerted effort by police and CPS to bring to court cases of ...

VICTIMS ARE VICTIMS ARE VICTIMS

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  02. Aug. 2010. – 11:56:35 In recent years the rights of “victims” so called have achieved a position in legal proceedings whereby statem...

ALL OPTIONS CRY WOLF

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 @ 31. Jul. 2010. – 12:08:23  When a defendant is sentenced at a Magistrates` Court to custody or to a community sentence it is generally su...

WHEN LEGAL ADVISERS BARE THEIR TEETH

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 28. Jul. 2010. – 11:19:43  J.P.s are appointed on the basis of their possessing many of the qualities thought to be necessary to do the job...

THE CPS & COCK UPS;HOW MUCH MORE?

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  23. Jul. 2010. – 15:34:43 Yesterday I sat in the video remands court. This is a fairly successful innovation using video technology to a...

POLICE MISCONDUCT

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 22. Jul. 2010. – 11:43:31  Psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, biologists, physiologists singly, in any combination or permutation ...

FROM HAROLD SHIPMAN TO FRANZ KAFKA WITH MUCH IN BETWEEN.

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 21. Jul. 2010. – 08:48:20  Harold Shipman was a mass murdering monster. The system that was meant to oversee him was not fit for purpose. I...

FINE DEFAULTERS & DEBTORS` PRISON

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 19. Jul. 2010. – 14:33:33  There are some days with some people discussing some subjects when for days after one has an unusual mental itch...

Ministry of Justice Draft Structural Reform Plan

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 18. Jul. 2010. – 12:45:28  The Ministry of Justice recently published its Draft Structural Reform Plan. It would seem that lots of little e...

COURTS CLOSURES, LEGAL ADVISERS, OPINIONS & DUTY

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 17. Jul. 2010. – 13:34:17  For the country`s 28,000 magistrates the last few weeks have been little less than traumatic insofar as the prop...

YORKSHIRE RIPPER WILL STAY INSIDE FOR LIFE

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 16. Jul. 2010. – 17:01:11  The Judgement by THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE MITTING has just been issued that the Yorkshire Ripper will serve who...

THE COURTS` FUNNY SIDE

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 16. Jul. 2010. – 16:45:58  Some court stories are so amusing they are almost unbelievable. This is believable because I was told of it by a...

LORD JUDGE IS MISTAKEN

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 15. Jul. 2010. – 11:59:17  The history, practice and efficiency of the jury system has been examined in ever closer detail by myriad academ...

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...