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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
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 ...
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.
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 ]
Croydon Law Courts is a Crown Court venue, which deals with criminal cases, and a County Court venue, which deals with civil cases, in Altyre Road, Croydon, London. There is also an older magistrates' courts building on an adjacent site in Barclay Road.
The Thames Magistrates' Court is a magistrates' court in Bow, [1] London, England. It is located near the Bow Road tube station The Thames Magistrates' Court is part of His Majesty's Court System .
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.