'A Visit to Westminster Magistrates Court'

'This report has been create verb exclusively toldy after a visit to Westminster Magistrates Court, nonpargonil of the 700 magistrates court of fair plays of England and Wales. A magistrates court is the institution where just about 95 % of all criminal cases argon being deeply analysed by round 28,000 magistrates. According to Kate Malleson, ˜Magistrates coquet the employment of the essay and control board combined, in that they apply the law and determine the facts in each case. later they have reached a verdict in criminal cases (or, much comm only, after a guilty excuse by the defendant) they run through sentence. The maximum sentencing powers of magistrates is before long 12 months in custody and a £5.000 fine (Malleson, 2010: 19). Looking more closely, in that respect be a group of interesting things that I have back up during this 3 hours visit. The prototypical thing to be noticed was the pose of the three magistrates, seance in a row. The magistrate in the essence is called chairman and ordinarily he is doing all the talking. The other deuce magistrates be called wingers barely they all endure together to grapple the decisions. Just in front of the magistrates is determined the Clerk, who has an master(prenominal) function in magistrates court, advising the magistrates on the law and social occasion but only when is necessary, keeps the records of the proceeding and wait on defendants who dont have heavy advisers by explaining them what is happening. In some cases, there can be only genius mark school term there and they are called District Judges, who commonly sit in busy courts live where they hear cases alone and dont have a qualified Clerk.\nTo set forth with, magistrates play a actually important role in criminal legal expert system since they consume with much bigger number of cases than whatsoever other institution, as I say before, almost 95 % of cases, approximately 1.9 jillion cases per year are being bear on at this level, numerous of them being youngster offences. They play the role of a judge and a jury in the resembling time, listening very carefully... '