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  • Thumbnail for Magistrate (England and Wales)
    adult criminal court, magistrates decide on offences that carry up to twelve months in prison, or an unlimited fine. Magistrates also sit in the family...
    83 KB (10,128 words) - 21:47, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magistrates' court (England and Wales)
    there were 320 magistrates' courts in England and Wales; by 2020, a decade later, 164 of those had closed. The jurisdiction of magistrates' courts and rules...
    30 KB (3,912 words) - 09:13, 30 May 2024
  • Arrest warrant (redirect from Bench warrant)
    An arrest warrant or bench warrant is a warrant issued by a judge or magistrate on behalf of the state which authorizes the arrest and detention of an...
    22 KB (2,565 words) - 21:53, 29 May 2024
  • (magistrates' court) or by a panel of at least two, but more usually three, magistrates. Section 47 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 allows a bench trial...
    6 KB (812 words) - 04:33, 23 May 2024
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    indictable offences Hearing appeals from magistrates' courts Sentencing of defendants committed from magistrates' courts Sentencing of those convicted in...
    12 KB (1,254 words) - 00:58, 4 June 2024
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    responsibility over certain lower courts. It hears appeals on points of law from magistrates' courts and from the Crown Court. These are known as appeals by way of...
    33 KB (3,821 words) - 23:44, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magistrates' Court of Victoria
    raised bench for seating the sitting magistrate and a clerk and sometimes a dock for housing defendants in custody. Many Victorian magistrates' courts...
    10 KB (837 words) - 07:58, 28 February 2024
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    maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) "Magistrates Association > About magistrates". www.magistrates-association.org.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2022. "What...
    25 KB (3,232 words) - 11:27, 3 November 2023
  • of an England and Wales magistrates' court may be challenged. There are four mechanisms under which a decision of a magistrates' court may be challenged:...
    10 KB (1,382 words) - 22:13, 1 August 2023
  • metropolitan magistrates may, subject to the rules made by the CMM, sit together as a bench. All metropolitan magistrates including the ACMMs and benches of general...
    2 KB (174 words) - 16:13, 9 November 2019
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    around which the magistrates' benches were affixed. Rectilinear courtrooms had flat, rectangle shaped walls, although the magistrates' bench could still be...
    23 KB (3,135 words) - 16:29, 30 January 2024
  • criminals, thereby functioning as a jury or magistrates' bench. In this context, they are a sort of magistrate. The phrase schout en schepenen appears in...
    6 KB (735 words) - 04:36, 19 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Bar (law)
    conjunction with bench, bar may differentiate lawyers who represent clients (the bar) from judges or members of a judiciary (the bench). In this sense...
    7 KB (850 words) - 04:45, 19 February 2024
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    "administrative magistrates", to distinguish them from the judiciary magistrates. The President of Portugal is considered the Supreme Magistrate of the Nation...
    42 KB (5,423 words) - 19:23, 24 April 2024
  • court: Permanent bench. Circuit bench. Srinagar is the summer capital; Jammu is the winter capital. Circuit bench. Permanent bench. Srinagar is the summer...
    28 KB (1,488 words) - 13:48, 6 June 2024
  • over by a bench of magistrates (A.K.A. justices of the peace), or a legally trained district judge (formerly known as a stipendiary magistrate), sitting...
    31 KB (3,760 words) - 23:18, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Bangladesh
    Metropolitan Magistrate and other magistrates in a metropolitan area. The provision of recruitment of one or more Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrates is also...
    3 KB (307 words) - 06:54, 22 March 2022
  • Thumbnail for Court of King's Bench (England)
    The Court of King's Bench, formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, was a court of common law in the English legal system. Created...
    30 KB (4,101 words) - 03:53, 13 December 2023
  • over magistrate court as Chief Magistrate. The enabling legislation does not require magistrates to be licensed attorneys and most Magistrates in Georgia...
    8 KB (1,032 words) - 03:36, 26 August 2023
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    bailies, who acted as a magistrates bench for the burgh and dealt with such issues as licensing. The provost, or chief magistrate, was elected from among...
    24 KB (2,863 words) - 13:42, 25 March 2024
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