magistrates

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What is a lay person?
Not paid or legally trained
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What are the six key qualities that magistrates require?
Good character, Understanding and communication, Social Awareness, Maturity and sound temperament, Sound judgement, commitment and reliability.
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What is the age gap that you are eligible to apply to be a magistrate?
18-65
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What age do you retire as a magistrate?
70
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What percentage of magistrates are under 40?
3%
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How many days are magistrates expected committee themselves to ?
13
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Give three reasons why you may not be eligible to become a magistrate?
Choose from: people with serious criminal convictions, undischarged bankrupts, members of the forces, being or a relative of a police officer or traffic warden.
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Who do members of the local advisory committees tend to be?
current or ex - justices of the peace
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What is the maximum number of members should the local advisory committees have?
12 members
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What is the role of the local advisory committees?
interview and decide who to appoint as Lay magistrates
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How many stages of interviews are there, when applying to become a magistrate?
2 stage process
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What happens in the first interview, when applying to become a magistrate?
The panel tries to find out more about the candidate and search for the six qualities. Along with exploring the candidates attitudes on various criminal justice issues.
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What happens in the second interview, when applying to become a magistrate?
It is aimed at testing candidates' potential judicial aptitude and this is done through discussion of at least 2 case studies
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What is the traditional image of lay magistrates?
middle class, middle aged and middle minded
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What percentage of magistrates have disabilities?
4%
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What two types of cases do magistrates deal with?
Summary and triable either way
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What power of sentencing do magistrates have?
Sentencing the offender to an imprisonment of uptown six months for one offence or 12 for two. Also, they can make community orders, fining a defendant, ordering a conditional or absolute discharge and disqualifying a defendant from driving
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What type of offences do magistrates first deal with first and then transfer t the crown court?
indictable offences
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What do the magistrates do when the defendant pleads not guilty?
Hear the case and decide if guilty or not guilty.
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What do the magistrates when the defendant pleads guilty or is proven guilty?
Decide the sentence.
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Who assists magistrates on points of law?
A legally qualified clerk
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What is a Justice of the peace?
Another name for a magistrate
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What is hearsay?
Inadmissible evidence, not allowed
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What does case hardened mean?
When the magistrates see the same solicitors and get used to the same cases after hearing them for a long time
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What does it mean when you are on remand?
When you are imprisoned whilst awaiting trial
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What is jurisdiction?
Where it has its power - the magistrates have power pithing summary offences
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How are magistrates addressed?
'Your worships'
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