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His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice. 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 .
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.
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.
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.
England and Wales formerly used a system of courts of assize and quarter sessions for indictment trials at first instance. [4] However, the Beeching Commission in 1969 recommended the replacement of the assize system, following the model of the 'crown courts' introduced by the Criminal Justice Administration Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2.
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Until the early 1990s, criminal court hearings were held in the Town Hall in Albion Square, Hanley. [1] [2] However, as the number of court cases in the Stoke-on-Trent area grew, it became necessary to commission a more modern courthouse.
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