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Describe the criminal and civil jurisdiction of the magistrate court. A magistrate court is a court within England and Wales which consists of between two and seven magistrates or a single stipendiary magistrate exercising the jurisdiction conferred by the Magistrates Courts Act 1980, amongst other statutes. The principal function of the court is to provide the forum in which all criminal prosecutions, i.e. the resultant proceedings following an act which has been deemed by statute or common law to be a public wrong and therefore punishable by the state, are initiated. The court also has a limited jurisdiction in civil matters, i.e. private law as opposed criminal law, and primarily relates to issues of debt and matrimony. Criminal Jurisdiction of the Magistrates Court The jurisdiction of the magistrates' court is dependant upon the classification of the offence as each group has a separate procedure for which the magistrates must follow. There are three...

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