Lay Magistrates - qualifications, appointment, disqualifications
- Created by: Hayley Petts
- Created on: 18-01-13 14:56
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- Lay Magistrates
- Qualifications
- formal requirements
- live or work near local justice area
- 18-65 on appointment
- committed to at least 26 half days a year
- Six key Qualities
- McGuss
- set out by Lord Chancellor in 1998
- formal requirements
- Ineligible for appointment
- member of the armed forces
- if you have serious criminal conviction
- an undischarged bankrupt
- incompatible job
- Police
- traffic warden
- Appointment
- 1,500 appointed every year
- LAC recommend to secretary of state and Lord Chancellor
- LAC made up of 12 people
- 1/3 must be non-magistrates
- LAC made up of 12 people
- aims to create a bench which represents a cross-section of society
- advertisement used to get a cross-section of society
- Local news papers aimed at particular ethnic groups
- local radio
- local buses
- opening evenings
- two interviews
- 1st- six qualities
- 2nd- judgement - case studies
- sworn in at local crown court
- Qualifications
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