Example sentences of "in the magistrates ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1971 ‘ Justice ’ , a group of liberal lawyers , published a booklet entitled The Unrepresented Defendant in the Magistrates ' Courts . |
| 2 | Criminal legal aid in the magistrates ' courts cost £14 million in 1976 , rising to £16¾ million the following year , an increase of 17 per cent . |
| 3 | It is important to note in this context that courts have an inherent power to permit anyone to act as advocate , though this is seldom exercised except for the massive exception which at one time allowed police officers to act as prosecutors in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 4 | This was true of 6.5 per cent of defendants appearing in the Crown Court and 12.2 per cent who were proceeded against in the magistrates ' courts in 1999 , all of whom could be said to have suffered a double injustice . |
| 5 | But even in relation to those who are ultimately convicted , the fact that many of them go on to receive a non-custodial sentence — in 1999 the figures were 19.4 per cent in the Crown Court and 25.9 per cent in the magistrates ' courts — calls into question the need and justification for pre-trial detention on the present scale , particularly in view of the deplorable conditions in which most remand prisoners are held . |
| 6 | Adult offenders who are convicted in the magistrates ' courts will normally be sentenced by a bench of lay ( meaning unpaid , and largely untrained ) magistrates , though in some of the larger conurbations lay benches are supplemented by full-time professional magistrates known as stipendiaries , who sit alone . |
| 7 | Between them they are responsible for handling 95 per cent of the criminal cases tried in the country though a few who are convicted in this way ( just over 4,000 in 1999 , which is 1.6 per cent of all indictable offenders convicted in the magistrates ' courts ) are committed to the Crown Court for sentence . |
| 8 | And in reality , as the Criminal Statistics for 1990 bear out ( Home Office , 1991a ) , less than a third of such cases would have been dealt with in the magistrates ' courts by means of a custodial penalty at all ( compared with just under two-thirds in the Crown Court ) . |
| 9 | If a set of presumptive penalties were to be constructed on the basis of Court of Appeal recommendations , for example , this would clearly have disastrous implications for sentencing levels elsewhere in the system , and particularly in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 10 | It emerged that in the magistrates ' courts the distribution of sentences did not differ greatly between Blacks and Whites , and this was also the case in the Crown Court . |
| 11 | It seems likely that the files of cases which had ‘ no further action ’ or were cautioned would be returned to the police quickly , so we inferred that those cases not followed-up had been tried in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 12 | About half of the Blacks and Whites were tried in the magistrates ' courts and one-fifth of the Asians ( see Table 3 ) . |
| 13 | In our sample we had details of only eight Blacks , five Asians and 43 Whites sentenced in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 14 | With regard to acquittal rates in the magistrates ' courts , our data are too uncertain to draw firm conclusions as they are incomplete . |
| 15 | An analysis of sentencing in the magistrates ' courts and in the Crown Court ( where the data were available ) showed that differences between the races in sentencing were not significant . |
| 16 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 17 | A total of 135 cases were observed in the magistrates ' courts : 46 Blacks ; 7 Asians ; and 82 Whites . |
| 18 | Apart from this , it was found that sentencing in the magistrates ' courts and sentencing in the Crown Court did not differ significantly . |
| 19 | The sections in the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 which give justices ' courts power to adjourn are : section 5(1) , adjournment of an inquiry into an offence as examining justice ; section 10(1) , adjournment of the trial of an information ; section 18(4) , the power to adjourn proceedings under sections 19 to 23 of the Act , that is to say the procedure which has to be followed where the information charges the defendant with an offence triable either on indictment or summarily ; and section 30 , a duty to adjourn the case to enable a medical examination and report to be made where the court is satisfied that the accused did the act or made the omission charged but is of the opinion that inquiry ought to be made into his physical or mental condition . |
| 20 | As a local authority employee you can be authorised to appear on its behalf in the Magistrates ' Courts , giving you early experience in advocacy . |
| 21 | When we are required to respond to Green Papers , White Papers or Royal Commissions , whether we are negotiating over the Courts and Legal Services Bill or standard fees in the magistrates ' courts , the quality of our response must at the very least match that of other interested parties and groupings . |
| 22 | The Bar notes with concern the reduction in number of those eligible for legal aid and finds the proposals for the introduction of a system of standard fees in the magistrates ' courts to be contrary to the interests of the public and to justice and to be offensive and unfair to the profession . |
| 23 | This meeting notes with concern the potential for exploitation of junior members of the Bar with the introduction of standard fees in the magistrates ' courts and calls on the Legal Aid and Fees Committee to liaise with the Law Society , the Legal Aid Board and the Lord Chancellor 's Department with a view to agreeing a fair approach to fixing Counsel 's fees and making such practical arrangements as are necessary . ’ |
| 24 | The first of these , standard fees in the magistrates ' courts , is to be introduced in January 1993 . |
| 25 | A prime example this year has been the committee 's extensive concern with the prospect of standard fees being introduced in the magistrates ' courts , with the risks which that will bring to the most junior members of the profession . |
| 26 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
| 27 | At the time of writing , the first batch of prosecutions had collapsed in the magistrates ' court , on account of the long delay in launching the prosecutions against those involved . |
| 28 | They were convicted in the magistrates ' court , but appealed successfully to the Divisional Court on the ground that the question whether their obstruction had been reasonable had not been adequately considered . |
| 29 | It also suggests the possibility that demonstrators fall foul of the law in the magistrates ' court in ways which may never afterwards be given thoughtful re-examination at a more senior judicial level . |
| 30 | Every single criminal case in the country , trivial or serious , starts in the magistrates ' court . |