Sentence examples for magistrates can be from inspiring English sources

""Any fines you get from magistrates can be written off as a business expense … We were let down by the courts, who didn't seem to be interested in levying even the pathetic fines they had at their disposal; we were rather let down by parliament in the end, with no legislation; and we were let done by the newspaper groups, which didn't take it seriously," he said.

Under Indian law only statements made before a magistrate can be admitted as evidence in a trial.

'Winding the magistrates up can be a good thing,' said Bruno Thouzeillier, of a judges' union, 'But the problem is the speed at which it is being done.

The only solution is the one resisted by the Ministry of Justice, and by most senior judges – that is monitoring each crown court and magistrates centre so that there can be proper scrutiny of individual courts to identify where the problem lies.

If someone is arrested or summonsed for the offence and tried for it in a magistrates' court – it is an offence that can only be dealt with in a magistrates' court – the maximum penalty that can be imposed is a fine of £1,000.

As a part of the sentencing guidelines, fines can be adjusted by magistrates according to the seriousness of the offence, the offender's income, and proportionality and fairness.

Such consent could be applied for just as quickly as a charge can be sought from the magistrates' court.

And thereby give the magistrate the authority to delineate what items can be examined, and what items may not be examined.

For this reason, jurisdictional functions can be performed only by ordinary magistrates, and extraordinary tribunals may not be set up.

Currently, these can be tried either in a magistrates' court or in a Crown Court before a jury.

The trend can be seen both in the magistrates' courts, which hear most cases, and in the Crown Court, which dishes out the longest prison terms.