Magistration

ARTICLES

Calling all those who would be magistrates (The Times, February 21 1995)
Magistrates advertise on buses to balance the bench (The Times, June 19 1995)
Tory magistrates dominate magistracy even in Labour hotbeds (The Times, July 15 1995)
Straw seeks to counter Tory bias among JPs (The Times, August 22 1995)

Consider your verdict (The Times, January 2 1996)
Give magistrates better training (The Times, February 20 1996)
Will magistrates see the light? (The Times, March 19 1996)
MPs call for an end to secret system of selecting magistrates (The Times, June 13 1996)

Why not become a magistrate? (LCD, 15 March 1999)
Drive to make JPs blue collar, not blue rinse (The Times, March 15 1999)
Why magistrates are a mixed bunch (The Times, April 13 1999)
Justice claims clown for the Bench (The Times, May 13 1999)
Judge makes JPs pay for jailing error (The Times, May 14 1999)
Lord Chancellor continues search for alternatives to political balance in lay magistracy (LCD, 25 October 1999)
The lay magistracy and the judiciary (LCD, 9 November 1999)
Time to lay off lay magistrates? (The Times, November 9 1999)
Lord Chancellor to seek increase to stipendiary magistrate numbers (LCD, 10 November 1999)
Court backlog tackled (The Times, November 11 1999)
Lay magistrates, (The Times, November 15 1999)
The cost of criminal justice (Home Office, 15 November 1999)
Jury trials cost 10 times JP hearings (Independent, 16 November 1999)
We will fight you on the benches (The Times, November 23 1999)

Ministers 'hide facts' about courtroom bias (The Times, January 24 2000)
JPs could play second fiddle to a bench lawyer (The Times, March 29 2000)
JPs put themselves under the microscope (The Times, May 16 2000)
30,000 magistrates to take compulsory race attitude test (Independent, 30 May 2000)
JPs in Straw's back yard are most lenient (The Sunday Times, July 2, 2000)
Magistrates sackings on rise under Lord Irvine (Independent, 6 July 2000)
Don't let the lawmen banish our laymen (The Times, August 15 2000)
Code of conduct for members of Magistrates' Courts' Committees and Selection Panels (LCD, 17 August 2000)
Courts tsar to oversee shake-up of London JPs (Independent, 28 August 2000)
Criminal justice system to benefit from improvements to stipendiary bench (Lord Chancellor's Department, 29 August 2000)
A real possibility of justice? (The Times, October 10 2000)
Responsibilities of legal advisers to justices, Queen's Bench Division, Practice Direction (Justices: Clerk to court) (The Times Law Report, October 11 2000)
Image-makers bail out magistrates in dire straits (The Times, Legal Diary, October 10 2000)
Raising the benchmark (The Times, October 24 2000)
Courts accused of justice by geography (Independent, 25 October 2000)
Magistrate fears 'white justice' (The Times, October 30 2000)
Magistrates to get training in assertiveness (Independent, 2 November 2000)
The case for their worships (Independent, 28 November 2000)

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