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In England and Wales, a magistrates' court is a lower court which hears matters relating to summary offences and some triable either-way matters. Some civil law issues are also decided here, notably family proceedings. In 2010, there were 320 magistrates' courts in England and Wales; by 2020, a decade later, 164 of those had closed.
When the Crown Court is conducting a trial, the judge sits with a jury of twelve; when hearing appeals from magistrates, the judge sits with two (or sometimes four) magistrates. [ 1 ] The Crown Court was established by the Courts Act 1971 , which came into force on 1 January 1972, following the recommendations of a royal commission chaired by ...
Shares a building with Maidstone Magistrates' Court. Manchester: 15 March 1847: North West Now located in the Manchester Civil Justice Centre, which opened on 24 October 2007 [89] Mansfield: 15 March 1847: Midlands Shares a building with the magistrates' court at Mansfield Courthouse Mayor's and City of London Court: 1 January 1972: London
The estimated average offence-to-completion time in the magistrates' courts for indictable/triable either-way offences was 109 days for the same period. [98] The cost of a trial in the magistrates' court is also much cheaper than the cost in the Crown Court both for the government and for those defendants who pay their own legal costs. However ...
The Senior Courts of England and Wales were originally created by the Judicature Acts as the "Supreme Court of Judicature". It was renamed the "Supreme Court of England and Wales" in 1981, [8] and again to the "Senior Courts of England and Wales" by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (to distinguish it from the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom).
Challenges to decisions of England and Wales magistrates' courts; Family proceedings court; Legal adviser; Magistrates' Courts Act 1952; Magistrates' Courts Act 1980; Magistrates' courts committee; Middlesex Justices Act 1792; Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994; Thomas de Veil
All the magistrates belonging to this office are in the Commission of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex. [6] In its later years, the court housed the office of the Senior District Judge (Magistrates' Courts), who heard high-profile matters, such as extradition cases or those involving eminent public figures.
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