Here you will find information of interest to Magistrates, including consultation papers on a number of key issues.
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This document contains background information for magistrates, together
with guidance on issues such security and dealing with the media. It also
addresses many of the questions asked by magistrates as part of the ‘Supporting
Magistrates to Provide Justice' programme. If you require more copies
of this publication, or copies in an alternative format, please call 020
7210 8989.
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Magistrates courts business returns - Annual
report 2004-05
[28 July 2004]
Proposals
for new rules for training, development and appraisal of magistrates 
with questionnaire 
[17
November 2004]
[Responses by 15 December 2004]
Protocol for National Minimum Standard of Offender
Information to be Provided by Prosecutors
[8 September 2004]
Magistrates Courts Business Returns - Annual
report 2003-04
[July 2004]
Speech by Christopher Leslie
MP at the Association of Magisterial Officers (AMO) Annual Conference [June
2004]
Speech by Lord Falconer to
the Bench Chairs Conference
[February 2004]
Speech by Chris Leslie MP
at the Central Council of Magistrates' Courts' Committees AGM
[November
2003]
Review of the Justices of
the Peace (Size and Chairmanship of Bench) Rules 1995
[responses
were sought by 18 May 2001]
Draft Code of Conduct for
members of Magistrates' Courts Committees and Selection Panels
[comments
were sought by 31 March 2000]
Magistrates sitting as judges
in the Crown Court
[responses were sought by 21 October 1998]
Exemplifications of a Revenue
Grant Allocation Mechanism for Magistrates' Courts Committees
[responses
sought by 11 November 2002]
Confidential Reporting Policy
in Magistrates' Courts Committees
[responses were sought by 12
January 2001]
Future Role of the Justices'
Clerk - a Strategic Steer
[comments were sought by 29 February
2000]
Creation of a Unified Stipendiary
Bench
[comments were sought by 13 May 1998]
The Greater London Magistrates'
Courts Authority - Transfer of Assets, Rights & Liabilities
[responses
were sought by 17 November]
The Greater London Magistrates'
Courts Authority - Financial Issues
[responses were sought by 6
November]
Magistrates' Courts Service
- Review of magistrates' courts revenue grant allocation formula
[responses
were sought by 6 October 2000]
The Greater London Magistrates'
Courts Authority Implementation Issues
[responses were sought by
14 May 1999]
Future role of the Justices'
Clerk
[responses were sought by 30 November 1998]