This note provides guidance on how the appointment and reassignment or removal of justices’ clerks should take place with the establishment of Her Majesty’s Courts Service on 1 April 2005.
The full-time Judiciary look forward to the same relationship with Her Majesty’s Courts Service as exists at present with the Court Service, and it is essential that the magistrates’ relationship with Area Directors and other ...
This Direction applies only to cases committed or transferred by London Magistrates Courts to London Crown Courts or ‘Sent’ to London Crown Courts in accordance with the provisions of Section 51 of the Crime and ...
The partnership between Her Majesty’s Courts Service (HMCS) and magistrates is fundamental to the work of the courts. A Government Amendment was made to the Courts Bill with the support of the Magistrates’ Association to ...
Following agreement in principle by the Lord Chief Justice and the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor that it would be desirable to make provision for the hearing in the Magistrates Courts ...
Her Majesty’s Courts Service has adopted the principle that in the conduct of public business and the administration of justice in Wales it will treat the English and Welsh languages on a basis of equality. ...
November 2012 This protocol was drawn together by a working group consisting of the Deputy Senior Presiding Judge, Lord Justice Gross, the Magistrates’ Association, National Bench Chairmen’s Forum, Senior District Judge and HMCTS. One of ...
Summary of Main Recommendations The present deployment of QB Judges Some background to the present Working Group Regional centres The Administrative Court Cardiff and Wales Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds Practicalities Deployment out of London of ...