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Describe the Role and Power of Magistrates.
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... GCSE Law (Magistrates) - Michael Godfrey Student Number: 16947 Describe the Role and Power of Magistrates There are exactly 30,374 lay magistrates in England and Wales, 15,858 men and 14,516 women (at the time of writing this essay), appointed by the Lord Chancellor or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the name of the Crown (figures from the Lord Chancellor's Organization UK). Magistrates are ordinary members of the community who sit in the Magistrates' Courts and who dispense justice at the lowest level of the English court system. They are unpaid for what they do and therefore are not servants of the Crown. This supports their position of impartiality between the Crown and the public whom they serve. English lay magistrates are not learned in the law - they do not hold legal qualifications, nor have they formally studied law to any level other than that which they may have done
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