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Explain the selection, training and role of Magistrates in the English legal system.
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Explain the selection, training and role of Magistrates in the English legal system. Lay magistrates are unqualified, part-time and unpaid profesionals who are chosen to serve in the magistrates court, yet they deal with the vast majority of cases in the legal system. They do not hear cases on their own but sit as a bench or panel of two or three other magistrates. The use of such unqualified people to judge cases is open to criticism. Magistrates sit in a magistrates court, usually in a bench of three. The role of magistrates is to deal with a wide variety of cases. Their main work is trying minor criminal cases, but they also have some civil functions. They hear applications for licenses to sell alcohol and dealing with community debts such a non-payment of the community charge. They also deal with domestic jurisdiction such as adoption and divorce. They also have bail...
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