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A nice day at court(magistrates, not tennis)
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:59:36 GMT, Baz wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote in : You spoke to the Clerk to the Justices, or a clerk working for the Court? A slight difference, as the latter is, well, a clerk; the former isn't what we'd commonly call a "clerk", but a lawyer, who will usually ensure the Justices don't commit bloopers: on the whole I'll be surprised if a learned Clerk would tend to agree with what you say above. The criminal justice system would crash and burn without JPs. Oh, and what _is_ a "do-gooder", please? I spoke to the viperous person who explains to the magistrate in court what the offender is here for and just what a bad lot the defendant is and advises the JP, magistrate or whatever you need to call them, do-gooder is a good description of an idiot I saw give liberty to a callous, no good trash criminal who invades everyone it comes across. This person is the clerk of the court. Certainly, the person who advises the magistrates on the law is the Clerk to the Justices. I'm surprised this "viperous" one stepped out of line with you: I don't think he should have criticised the JPs. The do-gooder is that the person, on the bench with 2 others who has no idea how much they hurt a victim of crime by giving a soft sentence. All of this is fresh in my mind, and I have spoken to this clerk of the court, the same person who was physically in court who was advising the bench. I hope this explains to you just how good our magistrates courts are. Crash and burn indeed! Well, crash and burn is what the system _would_ do without them. Imagine if the Crown Court had to deal with every offence instead of only maybe ten per cent of them: the waiting list would make the slowest hospital look brilliant, and they'd probably run out of jurors in a few years. I'm sorry you had a bad experience; but it isn't usually like that. -- Mike. |
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