MAGISTRATES
Role, Appointment and Training
ARTICLES
1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000
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Calling all those who would be magistrates (The Times, February 21 1995)
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Magistrates advertise on buses to balance the bench (The Times, June 19 1995)
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Tory magistrates dominate magistracy even in Labour hotbeds (The Times, July 15 1995)
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Straw seeks to counter Tory bias among JPs (The Times, August 22 1995)
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Consider your verdict (The Times, January 2 1996)
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Give magistrates better training (The Times, February 20 1996)
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Will magistrates see the light? (The Times, March 19 1996)
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MPs call for an end to secret system of selecting magistrates (The Times, June 13 1996)
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Lord Irvine attacked over call for more Labour JPs (The Times, October 13 1997)
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Lord Chancellor reforms lay magistrate appointment system (LCD, 3 August 1998)
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Older magistrates appointed (LCD, 4 September 1998)
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Political balance on magistrates' benches "Time for change?" asks Lord Chancellor (LCD, 17 October 1998)
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Go-ahead for claims by fine defaulters (The Times, November 19 1998)
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Why not become a magistrate? (LCD, 15 March 1999)
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Drive to make JPs blue collar, not blue rinse (The Times, March 15 1999)
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Why magistrates are a mixed bunch (The Times, April 13 1999)
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Justice claims clown for the Bench (The Times, May 13 1999)
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Judge makes JPs pay for jailing error (The Times, May 14 1999)
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Lord Chancellor continues search for alternatives to political balance in lay magistracy (LCD, 25 October 1999)
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The lay magistracy and the judiciary (LCD, 9 November 1999)
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Time to lay off lay magistrates? (The Times, November 9 1999)
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Lord Chancellor to seek increase to stipendiary magistrate numbers (LCD, 10 November 1999)
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Court backlog tackled (The Times, November 11 1999)
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Lay magistrates, (The Times, November 15 1999)
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The cost of criminal justice (Home Office, 15 November 1999)
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Jury trials cost 10 times JP hearings (Independent, 16 November 1999)
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We will fight you on the benches (The Times, November 23 1999)
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Ministers 'hide facts' about courtroom bias (The Times, January 24 2000)
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JPs could play second fiddle to a bench lawyer (The Times, March 29 2000)
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JPs put themselves under the microscope (The Times, May 16 2000)
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30,000 magistrates to take compulsory race attitude test (Independent, 30 May 2000)
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JPs in Straw's back yard are most lenient (The Sunday Times, July 2, 2000)
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Magistrates sackings on rise under Lord Irvine (Independent, 6 July 2000)
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Don't let the lawmen banish our laymen (The Times, August 15 2000)
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Code of conduct for members of Magistrates' Courts' Committees and Selection Panels (LCD, 17 August 2000)
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Courts tsar to oversee shake-up of London JPs (Independent, 28 August 2000)
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Criminal justice system to benefit from improvements to stipendiary bench (Lord Chancellor's Department, 29 August 2000)
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A real possibility of justice? (The Times, October 10 2000)
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Responsibilities of legal advisers to justices, Queen's Bench Division, Practice Direction (Justices: Clerk to court) (The Times Law Report, October 11 2000)
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Image-makers bail out magistrates in dire straits (The Times, Legal Diary, October 10 2000)
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Raising the benchmark (The Times, October 24 2000)
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Courts accused of justice by geography (Independent, 25 October 2000)
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Magistrate fears 'white justice' (The Times, October 30 2000)
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Magistrates to get training in assertiveness (Independent, 2 November 2000)
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The case for their worships (Independent, 28 November 2000)
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