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Magistrates have been perceived as middle-class, middle-aged and middle-minded and this has some foundation in fact. [81] The Judiciary in the Magistrates' Court (2000) report found that magistrates were overwhelmingly from professional and managerial backgrounds and 40 per cent of them were retired from full-time employment. [81]
The application to the magistrates must be made within 21 days of the decision being challenged. The application may be refused on the basis that the application is frivolous, [14] so long as the justices issue a statement to that effect [11] and briefly give their reasons. Any refusal may be challenged by way of application to the High Court. [14]
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.
The judiciaries of the United Kingdom are the separate judiciaries of the three legal systems in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.The judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, Employment Tribunals, Employment Appeal Tribunal and the UK tribunals system do have a United Kingdom-wide jurisdiction but judgments only apply ...
A Magistrates' Court is the lowest court in the English and Welsh legal system. There is no jury and hearings may be taken by a panel of three non-specialist volunteers called magistrates. In more complex cases a district judge (often referred to as DJ, who may be a lawyer sitting part time) may be present.
The organisation's Framework Document says its aim is "to run an efficient and effective courts and tribunals system, which enables the rule of law to be upheld and provides access to justice for all." The courts over which it has responsibility are the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Crown Court, the magistrates' courts, and the county ...
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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).