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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 court building also houses the magistrates' family court work for the area, the building being called Barnet Civil and Family Courts Centre. Barnsley: 15 March 1847: North East Barnstaple: 15 March 1847: South West The court is located in Barnstaple Civic Centre. Barrow-in-Furness: 30 June 1873: North West
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.
It was created on 1 April 2011 (as Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service) by the merger of Her Majesty's Courts Service and the Tribunals Service. [2] The agency is responsible for the administration of the courts of England and Wales, the Probate Service and tribunals in England and Wales and non-devolved tribunals in Scotland and ...
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.
Each local justice area was part of a larger courts board area, which replaced the magistrates' courts committee areas with the inauguration of Her Majesty's Courts Service in 2005. [21] Courts boards were abolished in 2012. [22] Local Justice Areas will be abolished once Section 45 of the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 is brought into ...
One group of district judges sit in the county courts and have jurisdiction in civil and family cases, having previously been known as registrars until the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990. The other group sit in the magistrates' courts and were formerly known as stipendiary magistrates until the Access to Justice Act 1999.
Westminster Magistrates' Court is a magistrates' court at 181 Marylebone Road, London. [1] The Chief Magistrate of England and Wales , who is the Senior District Judge of England and Wales , sits at the court, and all extradition and terrorism -related cases pass through it. [ 2 ]