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Barry Godfrey and others
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 62, Issue 4, July 2022, Pages 1036–1053, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab110
Published: 17 November 2021
... Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract One year after the first COVID lockdown the backlog at the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts together...
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Jenni Ward
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 55, Issue 2, March 2015, Pages 341–358, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu077
Published: 08 October 2014
... notes some of the changes occurring to operational practice within the lower tier magistrates courts in E&W and argues these are reflective of political economic governance and the application of ‘neoliberal’ economic policies that have been occurring for some time and in other jurisdictions...
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BILL FORSYTHE and others
Social History of Medicine, Volume 9, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 335–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/9.3.335
Published: 01 December 1996
..., and practice which, if repeated elsewhere, point to a need to refine significantly our assumptions regarding the disposal of pauper lunatics in England and Wales in the fifty years following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Poor Law asylums insanity Devon magistrates local government © 1996 The Society...
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Published: 15 August 2010
...This section of the book is the English translation of six chapters in Book I of Mongmin simsŏ on administration for district magistrates. The chapters discuss the following: appointment, Manners toward Superiors and Subreparations for traveling to the post, taking leave...
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Published: 15 August 2010
...The English translation of the chapters in Book II of Mongmin simsŏ on administration for district magistrates is presented. The chapters discuss the following: setting the body in order, integrity, ruling the household, rejecting personal requests or favors, frugality...
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Published: 15 August 2010
...The English translation of six chapters in Book V of Mongmin simsŏ on administration for district magistrates is provided in this section of the text. The chapters discuss the following: taking control of yamen clerks, subordinating petty functionaries and underlings, employing...
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Published: 15 August 2010
...The English translation of six chapters in Book XI of Mongmin simsŏ on administration for district magistrates is shown here. The chapters discuss the following: preparation of relief supplies, solicitation of contributions, the extent of relief measures, setting up camps...
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Published: 07 May 2024
...Blackstone’s Handbook of Youths in the Criminal Courts. Mark Ashford, Gareth Branston, and Naomi Redhouse, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198913146.003.0017 This chapter describes the allocation and sending proceedings. The Magistrates...
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Published: 07 May 2024
... for under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, s 45. Magistrates and District Judges sitting in the youth court will have received specialist training and must be authorized to sit. Magistrates will usually sit as a bench of three justices but hearings can be dealt with by two justices. Meanwhile...
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Published: 07 May 2024
.... In the adult magistrates’ court and Crown Court, the automatic reporting restrictions imposed by the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, s 49 do not apply. The court has a discretionary power to impose reporting restrictions in relation to those aged under 18 under the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act...
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Published: 07 May 2024
... as unique in the criminal justice system as the sentencing court determines the length of the referral while the requirements of the order are subsequently determined by a youth offender panel. The chapter explains that a referral order is available where the court is a youth court or other magistrates...
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Published: 07 May 2024
...’ should not be used in relation to a youth defendant dealt with in the youth court or adult magistrates’ court. It cites the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, s 59, which does not apply to youth defendants tried on indictment in the Crown Court. It also outlines the procedure for the sentencing hearing...
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Published: 07 May 2024
... a fine, detention, and absolute or conditional discharge. It looks into how referral orders may only be made by a youth court or other magistrates' court. When a Crown Court judge imposes a youth rehabilitation order (YRO), the court's attention must be drawn to s 189 of the Sentencing Code (SC), which...
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Published: 07 May 2024
.... If a youth attains 18 before the first court appearance, the youth court has no jurisdiction to deal with the case. However, if a youth reaches their 18th birthday before a first appearance, they are expected to be bailed or requisitioned to the adult magistrates' court. The chapter cites the youth court's...
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Published: 07 May 2024
... that ASBIs are governed by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 and that the Magistrates’ Courts (Injunction: Anti-Social Behaviour) Rules 2015 apply. An ASBI may be filed against any respondent who is 10 years old or older if two particular conditions are met. The chapter then considers...
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Published: 22 May 2014
... is made that the ‘Sophia Williamson controversy’ is best understood within the context of opposition by male colonists to Wesley’s ministry to women. Significant conflict also arose with the magistrates of Savannah due to his strident advocacy for poor colonists he believed were being oppressed...
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Published: 27 January 2005
...The 1857 Act was effectively restricted to the richer sections of society — the working classes had to seek a separation or maintenance order from the magistrates’ courts with their criminal overtones. Getting such an order did not allow either party to remarry. Over the years, there was increasing...
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Published: 27 January 2005
..., there was compelling evidence that orders made by Magistrates’ Courts led to great hardship, and measures were taken to introduce what was described as conciliation into those proceedings. In some ways, the legal aid scheme 311 became the victim of its own success...
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Published: 03 August 2000
... defendants. The debate has raged in countries as far apart as the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands. The existence of this debate is not something which judges or magistrates should deprecate. The maintenance of peace, order, and security is one of the oldest functions of civil society...
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Published: 01 October 2015
... James Chief Justice of Common Pleas Enis Catherine Hatton Sir Christopher Lord Chancellor Hatton family Leake Sir Francis magisterial classes magistrates Protestant Protestantism Puritans Throckmorton family Warwickshire Cambridge University common law Landlords Oxford University...