Six courts were running yesterday morning of which two
were constituted by just two J.P.s. Two
of these courts had their afternoon sittings cancelled. C`est la vie!
The observations and opinions of a retired magistrate. Also available my magistrate`s diary at https://amagistratesdiaries.blogspot.com/
That's nothing new in our LJA - regularly we have no-shows, so two will sit, to which there is no objection from the Crown or Defence, unless it is a trial, in which case another court has to be robbed of a Justice. With 250 magistrates on the books, Centralised Listing doesn't have an easy time getting the right number into the right place at the right time.
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