magistrates’ court
Evaluation of the Remote JP Magistrates Court Program: Final Report
... Stakeholders, however, were more likely to identify such technology as being useful to enhance support for JPs, including court-based administrative support by linking in with Registries during JP Court. ...
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A qualitative study of social interaction in a magistrates' court
... the Magistrates' Association, recalls that many magistrates didn't even think of their courts as being part of the criminal justice system and accepts that there was a general ignorance among ...
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The structure and functions of the English magistrates' court : a study in historical sociology
... In order to address the question of why magistrates' courts have emerged as a form of 'crime control' with little regard for the niceties of 'due process' that exist in the higher courts[r] ...
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Alcohol, crime and judgments of responsibility: Sentencing practice in a magistrates' court
... at court should be interpreted as impression management techniques for dealing with these situational aspects of the court appearance, rather than for accounting for the ...
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Index of /resources
... the Magistrates’ Court and as prosecuting counsel in the Crown Court who are not employees of CPS but from whom CPS and the public have a right to expect the same level of competent and knowledgeable ...
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A foot in the (revolving) door? : A preliminary evaluation of Tasmania's mental health diversion list
... An invitation to participate in an interview and/or project team meeting observation was extended to practitioners from the following agencies or organisations: Magistrates Court of Tasm[r] ...
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Comparative Criminal Justice Education a Report on an Overseas Experiment
... London School of Economics and Political Science Afternoon: Visit to Bow Street Metropolitan Magistrates' Court Group A Tuesday Morning: Criminal Court Procedure contd.. Afternoon: Visit[r] ...
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A guide to anti-social behaviour orders
... Criminal public funding is available for any proceedings under sections 1 and 4 of the Crime and Disorder Act (CDA) 1998 relating to ASBOs, including interim orders, where they are made in the magistrates’ ...
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Judged by peers? The diversity of lay magistrates in England and Wales
... of magistrates’ court work is being carried out by district ...lay magistrates being given less interesting and challenging cases: “if lay magistrates perceive their role to be marginalized, ...
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Prosecuting in the Magistrates' Courts in a time of austerity
... of magistrates’ court proceedings, but it contributes to it, by preventing the resolution of some cases at ...the magistrates’ court merely rubber stamps decisions made outside of ...
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Magistrates' courts and the 2003 reforms of the criminal justice system
... the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, the territorial criminal jurisdiction of magistrates was limited to offences committed in their commission area and offences committed by people who live in their ...
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Macrostructural Study of Digital Judgments from England and Wales. A Comparative Analysis
... the Magistrates’ Court, Family Proceedings Court and, more distinctly, in the High Court (Chancery Division), with 31 witness statements in the case number [2014] EWHC 185 ...High Court ...
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A Guide for the Judiciary
... county court is a criminal offence and the applicable provisions and principles are those set out in chapter ...a magistrates’ court even though the order was made in the county ...county ...
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An Ethnomethodological Perspective on the Conflict between Magistrates and Journalists in Cameroon
... Each territory is therefore trying to uphold its legitimacy, not on all the skills of the competitor but on this pi- votal platform or segment of human rights. In this confrontation for marking territories, judicial ...
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Judges' attitudes and perceptions toward the sentencing process
... The term “instinctive synthesis” came from the Victorian case of Williscroft [1975] VR 292, and has recently been endorsed by the High Court in Markarian (2005) 79 ALJR 1048. Although the term “instinctive ...
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The social control of female delinquency : occupational ideologies of policewomen, welfare workers and magistrates
... recognizance (good behaviour bond).^ For the policewomen/ their decision represents an evaluation of the likelihood of the girl re-offending, and as the police noted in other studies, the policewomen make their ...
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oa Zimbabwe Law Journal - Odds: retirement of professor Christie
... ·This country in the past has never had sufficient magistrates in proportion to the population. But during the perio~ immediately preceding and subsequent to Indep[r] ...
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Evaluation of Affidavits and Inssuance of Search Warrants: A Practical Guide for Federal Magistrates
... code sets forth the following grounds for permitting the execution of a search warrant during nighttime: The application may also contain- 1 a request that the search warrent be made exe[r] ...
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Magistrates Training: Why to Crave for More Creative Cities and Judges?
... judicial magistrates, in situations in which the judge, not being able to escape from deciding, must develop creative initiatives with the scope to seek the most appropriate solution to ...
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Bailing and jailing the fast and frugal way : an application of social judgement theory and simple heuristics to English magistrates' remand decisions
... This research bears upon a number of issues, namely the information that magistrates use to make their remand decisions, the conditions which they attach if they decide to release a defe[r] ...
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