MAGISTRATES Given the proposals to extend further powers to magistrates' courts in relation to modes of trial (see Chapter 10 above) it is important to consider the way in which such courts are operate. The results of a particularly thorough research project comparing lay magistrates and professional District Judges (magistrates' courts), the former stipendiary magistrates, were reported in December 2000 and will no doubt inform the outcome of Lord Justice Auld's current review of the criminal courts. The following is merely the summary of a very extensive research project by Rod Morgan (University of Bristol) and Neil Russell (RSGB). The full report is available on the internet, at
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