The remaining courts have had to act more efficiently to cope with a substantial increase in workload, raising concerns about the quality of justice delivered. Now, if many more cases are redirected ...

Magistrates in England and Wales will have greater sentencing powers to enable them to take on more cases, under plans to clear court backlogs. The government plans to let magistrates sentence cases ...

Agnes Xavier-Phillips was a corporate lawyer who started her career in nursing Most of us will hope never to set foot in one, but thousands end up appearing in court each year. What is it like in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British courtrooms, to many people, remain a mystery and often the only chance we get to see inside one is when they appear in big ...

Tim Lemire claims “More magistrates not enough in divorce cases” (Letters, Feb. 18) when he disagreed with Chief Justice Michael Forte’s call to the General Assembly to do just that — enable the ...

The most important element in the criminal justice process is the opportunity for the trial of alleged offences by a court. Detaining or punishing an accused person without trial runs contrary to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mother and daughter who volunteer as magistrates in their spare time, dealing with crimes including drink-driving and theft and ...

Concern over proportion of white and elderly JPs as courts minister says number of lay magistrates is set to halve A sharp fall in the number of magistrates in England and Wales will ensure that those ...