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A chief magistrate is a public official, executive or judicial, whose office is the highest in its class. Historically, the two different meanings of magistrate have often overlapped and refer to, as the case may be, to a major political and administrative officer (usually at a subnational or colonial level) or a judge and barrister.
Senior District Judge Timothy Henry Workman CBE is a retired [1] British judge, a long-term stipendiary magistrate who served as Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) for England and Wales. From 1967 to 1969, Workman was a probation officer in the Inner London district, before working as a solicitor until 1986, when he was appointed to serve ...
In Georgia, each county has a chief magistrate, elected by the voters of the county, who has the authority to hold preliminary hearings in criminal cases, conduct bench trials for certain misdemeanor offenses, including deposit account fraud (bad checks), grant bail (except as to very serious felony charges), and preside over a small claims court for cases where the amount in controversy does ...
Established in 1983, Magistrate Court was known then as the justice of the peace and was meant to give people a place to file small claims and work out their issues before a judge in an efficient way.
From 2010 to 2012, he served as criminal chief in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Wyoming. [3] On June 7, 2012, he assumed office as a United States magistrate judge for the District of Wyoming.
The Magistrates' Court of Kenya is a Subordinate court established under Article 169 1(a) of Kenya's 2010 Constitution. [ 1 ] The Court is subordinate to the High Court and is presided over by either a chief magistrate , a senior principal magistrate, a principal magistrate, a senior resident magistrate, or a resident magistrate .
He was appointed Senior District Judge for England and Wales (Chief Magistrate) in 2010. He was a contributing editor to Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences between 2008–12 and contributed to Blackstone's Criminal Practice between 2011-12.
In 2010, she was appointed to the Magistrates Court. [8] In 2011, she was appointed Chief Magistrate. [9] By virtue of her appointment as Chief Magistrate, she is also the Chief Coroner of the Australian Capital Territory. [10] In 2019, Walker was appointed to the Supreme Court as an Acting Judge to establish the Territory's Drug and Alcohol Court.