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EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW BUT APPARANTLY NOT PAUL GASCOIGNE

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 14. Nov. 2010. – 12:01:40 High profile cases at magistrates` courts usually make some sort of news; at a local ...

"P" PLATES CAN P*** OFF

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 13. Nov. 2010. – 12:58:11 One would have thought that a representative body faced with the most radical shake u...

UNPAID FINES

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 12. Nov. 2010. – 08:12:09 I`ve posted in the past on unpaid fines which currently total around £500 million and...

VACANT and VACATED

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 11. Nov. 2010. – 12:56:44 A full day`s sitting last month did not seem to hold any surprises when I consulted t...

BENEFIT FRAUD: CROWN COURT OR MAGISTRATES` COURT?

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 10. Nov. 2010. – 16:36:23 Benefit Fraud is an either way offence with a maximum sentence at Magistrates` Courts...

SQUATTERS` RIGHTS/ SQUATTERS` WRONGS

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 08. Nov. 2010. – 16:33:57 For anybody who parks a car in a dodgy neighbourhood there is always the underlying f...

BLOGGERS UNITED IN FREE SPEECH

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 08. Nov. 2010. – 14:14:37 There is democracy within an organisation and there is the appearance of democracy. A...

LOCAL COURTS AND LOCAL FOIBLES

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 08. Nov. 2010. – 09:27:52 The recent appeal in the case of Bobby Cooper Appellant/Defendant- and -Wrexham Magis...

JUSTICE BY PEERS: BY MAGISTRATES NOT LORDS

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 07. Nov. 2010. – 10:46:50 It`s called the freedom of the back benches. What it means is that for whatever reaso...

TOO MUCH PRE TRIAL ARGUMENT

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 06. Nov. 2010. – 12:10:57 "Let`s Get on With It" was the title of the best training session I`ve ever...

NEWS, GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 05. Nov. 2010. – 08:22:04 The Ministry of Justice yesterday published a Compendium of reoffending statistics a...

ALCOHOL, ASBOs & POPPIES

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 04. Nov. 2010. – 12:42:13 Alcohol has been in the news recently. I suppose alcohol is never out of the news. Th...

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS GIVES CONVICTS VOTE

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 02. Nov. 2010. – 09:53:19 The European Court of Human Rights was not on my blogging agenda this morning until 8...

TOO OLD TO BE A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 01. Nov. 2010. – 10:31:48 Parliamentary answers are, I suppose, answers straight from the horse`s mouth. They a...

LEGAL LIABILITY OF CHILDREN IN NEW YORK

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 31. Oct. 2010. – 11:07:23 Events and news are the lifeblood, heart and lungs of any blogger. For this blogger t...

OUT OF COURT DISPOSALS AND SOME CONSEQUENCES

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 30. Oct. 2010. – 11:50:42 I`ve commented here many times on matters emanating from Crown Courts but rarely on r...

NO PUBLIC CASH HANDOUT FOR J.P.s` CELEBRATION

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 29. Oct. 2010. – 15:17:05 We read yesterday that the E.U. is demanding additional £billions from constituent go...

CONTEMPT

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 by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 28. Oct. 2010. – 11:24:23  Dictionary dot com and doubtless other sources define contempt of court as a. wilful d...

WHAT`S SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE.................

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 27. Oct. 2010. – 14:39:35 People have been trying to do it for centuries in one form or another. First it was t...

LOCAL OPPOSITION TO A COURT CLOSURE

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 27. Oct. 2010. – 12:27:53 The proposed closure of 157 courts has brought forth such a unified outcry from so ma...

THE SUM OF ALL [CAR] PARTS

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 27. Oct. 2010. – 11:30:58 We occasionally read of attempts by members of the public, dissatisfied with the effo...

LATE CHANGES OF PLEA

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 25. Oct. 2010. – 14:40:32 Vacated trials are the bane of court life. A date has been set, usually two or three ...

JUDGES ON TARGET

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 25. Oct. 2010. – 14:16:21 If the Magistrates` Association cannot secure widespread media coverage of its opposi...

DISGRUNTLED CHAIRMAN AND DOGGY DOODLES AMONGST OTHER THINGS

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 23. Oct. 2010. – 17:16:59 For this blogger it`s been an interesting week. The Chairman of the Magistrates` Asso...

FEMALE J.P.s AT RISK

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  by TheJusticeofthePeace @ 22. Oct. 2010. – 08:14:58 Among suggestions thoughtlessly aired sometimes under pressure by magistrates officia...