Magistrates Flashcards
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Role of Magistrates
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Try summary and some either way (94% of cases)
Sentence guilty D’s
1st hearing of indictable before transferring to CC for trial
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Magistrate qualities
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Good character Understanding Social awareness Maturity Sound judgement Commitment
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Lay Magistrate training
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Observe other magistrates Mentoring Visits to panel institutions Consolidation First appraisal
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Lay Magistrate Advantages
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Provide better rep of society (53% FM) Live within local area Cheap Justices' clerk- access to points of law Very few appeals- good job
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Lay Magistrate Disadvantages
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Most from middle class
Magistrates courts closing recently- loss of ‘local knowledge’
Relying too much on Justices’ clerk
