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Aylesbury Crown Court, also known as Old County Hall, is a former judicial facility and municipal building in Market Square, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, completed in 1740. The building served as the meeting place of Buckinghamshire County Council from 1889 until 2012, and was used as a court until 2018.
When the county court system was created as a result of the County Courts Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 95), there were 491 county courts in England and Wales. Since the Crime and Courts Act 2013 came into force, there has been one County Court in England and Wales, sitting simultaneously in many different locations.
Amersham Law Courts act as a satellite to Aylesbury Crown Court. Aylesbury (Aylesbury Crown Court) South East Third March 2018 saw the relocation of the court house into the town's previous magistrates' court. [7] Basildon: South East Third Shares a building with Basildon County Court; there are seven courtrooms for criminal cases. [8] [9]
Shares a building with Scunthorpe Magistrates' Court. The closure of the court was proposed by the Ministry of Justice in July 2015. [9] Sheffield: 15 March 1847: North East Shares a building with Sheffield Crown Court. Skipton: 15 March 1847: North East Shares a building with Skipton Magistrates' Court. Slough: 1 January 1958: South East
Magistrates also sit at the Crown Court to hear appeals against verdict and/or sentence from the magistrates' court. In these cases the magistrates form a panel with a judge. [58] A magistrate is not allowed to sit in the Crown Court on the hearing of an appeal in a matter on which they adjudicated in the magistrates' court. There is a right of ...
[1] The jurisdiction of magistrates' courts and rules governing them are set out in the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980. All criminal proceedings start at a magistrates' court. Summary offences are lesser crimes (for example, public order offences and most driving matters) that can be punished under the magistrates' courts maximum sentencing ...
The only survival today of the historic office is the Recorder of London who is still appointed by the Court of Aldermen of the Corporation of the City of London and thereby becomes a member of that court. He is a senior circuit judge sitting at the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey).
Devizes Assize Court, Northgate Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The assizes (/ ə ˈ s aɪ z ɪ z /), or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court.