A magistrate who accessed a court database for personal reasons has been issued with a reprimand for misconduct. Karen ...

In fairness, he'd prepared for 10 more cases, but life in the magistrates' court, as he said, is unpredictable. A day shadowing him in Swansea is an eye opener.

MAGISTRATES have been barred from dispensing “justice by Zoom” from their sunbeds while on holiday. JPs have been ticked off ...

Almost two-thirds of magistrates court cases are now dealt with behind-closed-doors, it has been revealed, as the Lord Chancellor promised reform of an under-fire courts process. An Evening ...

Proposals unveiled by Sir Brian Leveson have been described as the “most sweeping transformation of criminal courts in a ...

A 92-year-old man has been convicted of raping and murdering a woman in 1967, solving the UK’s longest-running cold case.

When the BBC probed courts data last year, some magistrates warned their courts were "on the cusp" of breakdown. One year on, the average time taken to complete magistrate cases in England has ...

A record 60 per cent of magistrates’ court cases are being held in secret as ministers seek to speed up justice and clear the backlog of post-pandemic cases, a Telegraph investigation has found ...

Disgruntled magistrates are refusing to sit in secretive court hearings over objections to a system they say is “watering down justice”, the Evening Standard has learned. The system has ...

If your case would be dealt with in magistrates' court, you can only be sentenced to up to six months in prison, or up to 12 months in total if there is more than one offence. You can also receive ...

The UK government has reactivated an emergency plan to delay court cases as the latest swarm of arrests following the riots adds to an overcrowded prison system. The measures known as ‘Operation ...

In fairness, he'd prepared for 10 more cases, but life in the magistrates' court, as he said, is unpredictable. ... UK to return some migrants to France within weeks - PM. 9 ...