The drama happened on September 2, 1842, when William Davis and Stephen Clasby were patrolling fields near Haslar Hospital in Gosport ...

Background Henry Gordon Horsford (Harry) Sandeman was born in New South Wales in 1856, second eldest of the nine children of Alfred (1819-1883) and Amelia (ca ... 1810-1897), pastoralist, magistrate ...

During the 1819-1820 National Bank Crash ... and opposed slavery. He was a Magistrate for Limerick and the first Roman Catholic in Ireland to become a Commissioner of the Peace.

A new magistrate will take the reins at Johnson Circuit and Superior Courts next month. The judges of the Johnson Circuit and Superior Courts have appointed Franklin attorney James Admire to ...

Magistrate Monica Vella was given a dressing down by an appeals court judge earlier this month for her “irresponsible behaviour” after a court official testified she had failed to pass on her ...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday named a San Diego federal magistrate judge as his newest pick to be a U.S. district judge. The nomination of Benjamin Cheeks comes three months after he was sworn ...

A magistrate has been issued with formal advice for misconduct over comments which ‘betrayed unconscious bias on her part’ and made her colleague feel uncomfortable. A fellow magistrate ...

Conservatives have been quick to lash out at a controversial local magistrate who released a suspect without bail last year — before the same person was arrested in a homicide this week.

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The lord chancellor has announced that magistrates are to get enhanced sentencing powers, 18 months after the last government abandoned a similar initiative. Shabana Mahmood MP confirmed plans to ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood introduced the scheme to address prison overcrowding amid fears jails will run out of space (Joe Giddens/PA) Magistrates are being handed powers to sentence ...

Ministers are giving magistrates new sentencing powers in an effort to ease record delays to criminal trials, despite the fact that they are likely to temporarily push the prison population back up.