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Article: UK GOVERNMENT: Removal of requirements for magistrates to sit in the Crown Court.
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- August 27, 1998
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M2 PRESSWIRE-27 August 1998-UK GOVERNMENT: Removal of requirements for magistrates to sit in the Crown Court (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, today published proposals to remove the requirements for lay magistrates to sit as judges in the Crown Court.
Currently between two and four justices of the peace are required to sit in the Crown Court with a High Court judge, a Circuit judge or Recorder on all committals for sentence from the magistrates' courts and on all appeals against conviction or sentence by the magistrates' courts.
Since 1997 there has been a dramatic rise in the number of ...