Sentence examples for magistrates will be from inspiring English sources

Magistrates will be able to summon those who fail to attend the sessions before a court.

Judges and magistrates will be given greater discretion in imposing financial penalties, Michael Gove has promised, after he scrapped the mandatory criminal courts charge.

But the big change comes in April, when judges and magistrates will be able to pick and choose, Chinese restaurant-style, from an expanded menu of 12 non-custodial sentences.

The case is the first of a recent wave of corruption investigations to make it to trial, and it is being watched closely to see if France's new and far more aggressive investigating magistrates will be successful in obtaining convictions.

Magistrates will be able to scrutinise the use of cautions and penalty notices by the police following concerns that serious and persistent offenders were escaping justice.

Magistrates will be given a stronger role in community justice, with single magistrates sitting outside of courts, such as in community centres, in order to "dispense rapid and effective justice in low-level, uncontested cases".

The "checks and balances" reference was taken to mean the current 17-member police authorities, which include nine independent members, one of whom must be a magistrate, will be replaced by a "directly elected individual" joined by an unspecified number of local councillors.

She informs Mike that the magistrate will be going to Jenelle's house to check things out.

First he will try to get her statement … if she is in a position to give a statement then immediately SEM, Special Executive Magistrate, will be informed.

"Although we have lost many experienced magistrates, there will be an enormous sense of relief across the criminal justice system.

MPs, lawyers, magistrates and journalists will be exempt.