'A Visit to Westminster Magistrates Court'

'This piece of music has been written by and bywards a shout out to Westminster Magistrates Court, one of the 700 magistrates courts of England and Wales. A magistrates court is the fundament where near 95 % of e genuinely fell cases be world profoundly analysed by more or less 28,000 magistrates. jibe to Kate Malleson, ˜Magistrates add the po turn onion of the articulate and control board combined, in that they pass the impartiality and touch on the facts in apiece case. After they learn reached a verdict in pitiful cases (or, more comm only, after a vile plea by the defendant) they pass sentence. The level best sentencing powers of magistrates is currently 12 months in handgrip and a £5.000 fine (Malleson, 2010: 19). face more closely, in that respect are a lot of interest subjects that I make up assisted during this 3 hours visit. The first thing to be sight was the positioning of the ternary magistrates, sitting in a row. The magistrate in the mi ddle is called chairperson and usually he is doing all the talking. The separate two magistrates are called wingers scarcely they all work unitedly to take the decisions. full in preceding of the magistrates is situated the Clerk, who has an burning(prenominal) utilisation in magistrates court, advising the magistrates on the law and procedure but only when is necessary, keeps the records of the exertion and assist defendants who dont cave in legal advisers by explaining them what is happening. In just about cases, there plunder be only one judge sitting there and they are called territorial dominion Judges, who usually sit in alert courts rooms where they turn around cases alone and dont confine a subject Clerk.\nTo begin with, magistrates play a very important role in lamentable justice brass since they deal with much larger tally of cases than any early(a) institution, as I said before, almost 95 % of cases, approximately 1.9 million cases per twelvemonth a re world processed at this level, many of them macrocosm minor offences. They play the role of a judge and a jury in the same time, comprehend very carefully...'