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Oct 17, 2024 · Magistrates in England and Wales will be able to jail offenders for up to 12 months from November to stop cases clogging up crown courts. The plan was first tried by the former Conservative...
Jan 5, 2017 · This follows the argument that these proposals signal an end to the prominence of magistrate courts in England and Wales. Magistrates’ courts date back around 650 years.
Recently the Law Gazette featured a magistrate who had been removed because he had apparently failed to understand the role of the legal adviser. The judgment is intriguing – it doesn’t actually explain what happened, nor what rules he transgressed.
Oct 17, 2024 · The changes, the latest step in the government’s plans to tackle the inherited crisis in our prisons, will allow magistrates to hand-down prison sentences of up to a year. This will help to ...
Magistrates currently lack feedback on the offenders they sentence and local re offending rates. Demonstrating to magistrates reoffending outcomes for specific types of offenders with certain sentences, combined with feedback on locally sentenced individuals, should be made a priority.
Oct 13, 2022 · Magistrates who harbour principled objections have now spoken out against the secretive courts, saying they refuse to sit on SJP sessions because of the way the system operates.
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Magistrates’ courts are primarily seen as somewhere to punish people for the crimes they have committed, but effective rehabilitation is e qually part of the solution to prevent reoffending. We are considering how we can enhance the power of the courts to help achieve this.
