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HMCTS is an executive agency, in contrast with the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service which is a non-ministerial government department. However, it is unique in being such an agency and having constitutional accountability to judges as well as the Lord Chancellor.
Her Majesty's Courts Service carried out the administration and support for the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Crown Court, the magistrates' courts, the County Court and the Probate Service in England and Wales.
HMCTS page; What a bailiff can and cannot do This page was last edited on 22 April 2024, at 22:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
As of April 2022, [2] Communicourt provides legal intermediaries as a Managed and Approved Service Provider (MASP) [3] on behalf of HMCTS.Criminal Practice Directions allow the court the discretion to appoint an intermediary for a vulnerable defendant [4] because the Ministry of Justice does not offer this service.
The First-tier Tribunal is a first-instance general tribunal in the United Kingdom.. It was created in 2008 as part of a programme, enacted in the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, to rationalise the tribunal system, and has since taken on the functions of 20 previously existing tribunals.
In 2007, there were 91 locations in England and Wales at which the Crown Court regularly sat. [4] Crown Court centres are designated in one of three tiers: first-tier centres are visited by High Court judges for criminal and also for civil cases (in the District Registry of the High Court); second-tier centres are visited by High Court judges for criminal work only; and third-tier centres are ...
Poole Magistrates' Court is a magistrates' court in Poole, Dorset.. On 30 January 2017, Poole Magistrates' Court re-opened and became the only Magistrates' Court in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area, at the closure of Bournemouth Magistrates' Court on 27 January 2017.
Until the late 1980s, the main venue for criminal court hearings in Coventry was the aging County Hall in Cuckoo Street. [1] However, as the number of court cases in Coventry grew, it became necessary to commission a courthouse with dedicated facilities for both Crown Court hearings, which require courtrooms suitable for trial by jury, and for County Court hearings. [2]