Magistrates Bench
List of members of the tribunals judiciary.
Magistrates bench. District judges magistrates courts diversity and community relations judges dcrjs judge advocates general. A bench consists of three magistrates sitting together in order to decide if the defendant is innocent or guilty. The term bench is also used collectively to describe a group of magistrates assigned to a particular local justice area for example the midshire bench. Woman magistrate soft on child rapists still on bench 05 july 2020 00 00 by tania broughton magistrate kholeka bodlani s competence was under review by judicial authorities.
The presiding magistrate is known as the chairman. Magistrates court bench book. The production of the bench book has been a major undertaking. When sitting three magistrates on the bench the chairman will sit in the middle.
Day in the life of court dress. In other words has the case been proved or not. A resource for those presiding in the adult magistrates and youth courts magistrates court bench book oct 2017 this benchbook flows in the first. The first bench of magistrates was convened in sydney on 19 february 1788.
As settlement spread during the squatting era magistrates and their clerks performed an increasingly wide range of judicial and administrative. The tonga magistrates bench book 2 april 2004 foreword it is a privilege for me to be invited to write the introduction to tonga s first bench book for the magistrates courts. Bench chairs are elected annually by all the magistrates on their bench and serve for a maximum of three consecutive years. By 1800 sittings were held regularly in parramatta and the hawkesbury district and the use of magisterial proceedings had become widespread in the colony by the 1820s.
There are several hundred such courts in england and wales presided over by a bench or panel of two or more lay unpaid magistrates. Magistrates and district judges are assisted in court by the justices clerk and their assistants also known as legal advisers or court clerks whose role is to ensure that procedures are adhered to and that the bench is properly directed as to the law and its powers as well as seeing that the court s business is dealt with efficiently.