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MAGISTRATES AND THE OFFICE FOR JUDICIAL COMPLAINTS

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  14. Aug. 2010. – 16:33:08 Those appointed as Justice of the Peace are very clearly made aware that their public position makes them liab...

THE VAGARIES OF STATISTICS

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 12. Aug. 2010. – 12:12:00  It is well known that artists and photographers can create dramatic effects by the judicious use of contrast. In...

GOODBYE TO LOCAL JUSTICE

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 11. Aug. 2010. – 13:02:45  Almost every local newspaper every week for the last few weeks has been carrying a story about the possible clos...

PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT A TERRORIST THREAT

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  11. Aug. 2010. – 12:54:37 There was a rare admission recently from the Chief of the Met police that occasionally his officers get thing...

JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED

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 11 Aug. 2010. – 11:37:02  We are all familiar with the toddler hiding behind a sofa but whose feet are sticking out in public view and who ...

SHE COULDN`T CARE LESS

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 04. Aug. 2010. – 23:06:41  Although he appears to be now backtracking just a trifle from his remarks a month ago on the futility of short s...

FINES ARE NOT ALWAYS FINE

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 04. Aug. 2010. – 12:58:24  Sitting in an area which has a high proportion of residents born outside the U.K. we are used to dealing with al...

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...