The Criminal Justice Act of 1948 restricted imprisonment for juveniles and brought improvements to the probation and remand centres systems, while the passage of the Justices of the Peace Act of 1949 led to extensive reforms of magistrates courts.

In the court system on the islands, there is a panel of Justices of the Peace ( JPs ) who sit in the Summary Court, which has no jury.

In December it was announced that all the offices of deputy lieutenants and Justices of the Peace would be revised.

The lowest courts in the Isle of Man are presided over by the High Bailiff and the Deputy High Bailiff, along with lay Justices of the Peace.

Locke's father, also called John, was a country lawyer and clerk to the Justices of the Peace in Chew Magna, who had served as a captain of cavalry for the Parliamentarian forces during the early part of the English Civil War.

The only native judges are the Justices of the Peace, who only handle civil cases where sums involved do not exceed 15, 000 €.

* December 1 – Under the County and Borough Police Act, in any county or area of England and Wales where a police force has not already been established, the Justices of the Peace must from this date take steps to create one according to nationally defined standards.

Justices of the Peace in Justice of the Peace Courts are addressed and referred to as " Your Honour ".

Yet the most significant legal reform was probably that concerning the Justices of the Peace.

Reber, Clerk ; Isaac Newland and Samuel Reed, Justices of the Peace ; William Riser and Isaac Stroup, Constables. Bonds totaling 18, 000 dollars were issued for the extension of the Frisco Railway through Bruno Township.

The town's Justices of the Peace in 1831 were Parker Merrill, George W. Pillsbury, Benning Leavitt, John Palmer and A.

Justices of The Peace: L. B.

He was the town's first postmaster and one of Fannin County's earliest Justices of the Peace.

Justices of Peace:

Lancashire's High Sheriff and Justices of the Peace petitioned the king to repair the castle.

Harrison had to divide his time between Lancaster and designing and building Chester Castle's Shire Hall and Courts ; work at Lancaster slowed, partly because of dwindling funds due to war with France, and Harrison was released from the work as the Justices of the Peace felt it was taking too long.

* His / Her Worship — mayors of territorial authorities and Justices of the Peace.

All Justices of the Peace would be allowed to submit cases to the court, with cases to be heard within 60 days.

The Legislative Council comprised the above officials and three Justices of the Peace.

* Leading the local magistracy as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace ; and

* Justices of the Peace Act 1997

Under the new arrangements the bailies were abolished and replaced by Justices of the Peace serving in the District Courts of Scotland, these posts no longer holding any authority within the local authority as an administrative body.

* William Lambarde-Eirenarcha: or of the Office of the Justices of Peace

Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O ' Connor wrote the majority opinion ; they were joined by David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer, and opposed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia.

Before 1991 these judges were known as District Justices and addressed as " Your Worship ".

Justices were accustomed to asking jurors of presentment about points of fact in assessing indictments ; it was a short step to ask jurors if the accused was guilty as charged.

Titled " The Supreme Court of the Amalgamated Kingdom of England and France ", participating judges were Justices Samuel Alito and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Justices Douglas, Black, Burton, and Minton were predisposed to overturn Plessy.

Justice Douglas threatened to write a dissent from the reargument order ( he and the other liberal Justices were suspicious that Rehnquist and Powell would vote to uphold the statute ), but was coaxed out of the action by his colleagues, and his dissent was merely mentioned in the reargument order without further statement or opinion.

* Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom not holding peerages, who are addressed as if they were life peers by Royal Warrant.

When the Colonies were first settled, " the lawyer was synonymous with the cringing Attorneys-General and Solicitors-General of the Crown and the arbitrary Justices of the King's Court, all bent on the conviction of those who opposed the King's prerogatives, and twisting the law to secure convictions.

Ten of the initial Justices of the Supreme Court were ten of the twelve then existing Lords of Appeal in Ordinary ( Law Lords ).

In Tanfern Ltd v Cameron-MacDonald 1 WLR 1311 the Court commented on this limitation of second appeals, pointing out that the Lords Justices of Appeal were a valuable and scarce resource – it was necessary to impose limitations on appeals to prevent the Court and its judges becoming overburdened.

Lords Justices have, since 1946, been drawn exclusively from the High Court of Justice ; prior to this, Lords Justices were ( rarely ) recruited directly from the Bar.

In 1868, Solomon Stephens and L. N. Holmberg were appointed Justices of the Peace-the first officers in what is now McPherson County.

The three concurring opinions were written by Justices Clark, Douglas and Harlan.

John Campbell, in his The Lives of the Chief Justices of England, said that " His reasoning ... is narrow minded ; had utter contempt for method and style in his compositions ", and says that Coke's Reports were " tinctured with quaintness and pedantry ".

Frankfurter ’ s response to Jackson ’ s systematic destruction of his Gobitis decision was one of anger, and Justices Roberts and Murphy tried to get him to revise his opinion, arguing that the first two lines were “ much too personal ”.

Eventually, two more Vice-Chancellors were appointed in 1841, and a decade later two Lord Justices were tasked with hearing appeals from the Court through the Court of Appeal in Chancery.

In dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the Miranda warnings were not constitutionally required, citing a panoply of cases that demonstrated a majority of the then-current court, counting himself, Chief Justice Rehnquist, and Justices Kennedy, O ' Connor, and Thomas, " on record as believing that a violation of Miranda is not a violation of the Constitution.

Separate concurring opinions were delivered by Justices Felix Frankfurter and Robert H. Jackson.

The Lord Justices were before 1800 the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh as Primate of All Ireland.

It was the first case that provided an opportunity to overturn Roe since the two liberal Justices, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, were replaced with the Bush-appointed Justices David Souter and Clarence Thomas.