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

Justices of the Peace were reluctant to apply the full penalty.

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

The Judicial Committee consists of senior judges appointed as Privy Counsellors: Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, judges of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland, judges of the Inner House of the Court of Session ( the supreme civil court in Scotland ), and judges from various other Commonwealth member states.

Several senior judges — Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, judges of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland and judges of the Inner House of the Court of Session ( the highest court in Scotland )— are also named to the Privy Council.

On two occasions he was Lord High Admiral for a short period ; he was also Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, while he acted as one of the Lords Justices seven times ; and he was President of the Royal Society in 1689 – 1690.

Category: Chief Justices of Ireland

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.

This truce was vehemently opposed by the Lords Justices and the Protestant community in general in Ireland.

Lloyd George intended to replace the Lord Lieutenant-normally something of a figurehead position, with real power exercised by the Chief Secretary-with three “ Justices ”: James Campbell, unionist Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Midleton and French himself.

However, Justices of the Peace no longer sat out of petty sessions after 1935 ( Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal Justice Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1935 ).

# Lords Justices of Appeal of Northern Ireland

In 1724 Tickell was appointed secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland, a post which he retained until his death in 1740, at Bath.

Other prominent Lord Chief Justices of Ireland include Lord Whiteside ( LCJ 1866-1876 ), who as a Queen's Counsel had defended Irish nationalist leader Daniel O ' Connell in court, Gearoid Iarla Fitzgerald, ( the Third Earl of Desmond ), Hugh de Lacy, Risteárd de Tiúit, John Dougherty and Thomas Marlay, James Ley and Peter O ' Bryan.

On two occasions he was Lord High Admiral for a short period ; he was also Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, while he acted as one of the Lords Justices seven times ; and he was President of the Royal Society in 1689 – 1690.

Category: Justices of the Supreme Court of Ireland

Category: Chief Justices of Ireland

In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, breach of the peace is descended from the 1361 Justices of the Peace act ,, which refers to riotous and Barratory behavior that disturbs the peace of the King.

Category: Chief Justices of Ireland

This Treaty contained thirteen articles which were agreed upon between the Right Honourable Sir Charles Porter, and Thomas Coningsby, Esq., Lords Justices of Ireland, and his Excellency the Baron de Ginkle, Lieutenant General and Commander-in-Chief of the English army, and the Right Honourable Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, Percy Viscount Galmoy, Colonel Nicholas Purcell of Loughmoe, Colonel Nicholas Cusack, Sir Toby Butler, Colonel Dillon, and Colonel John Brown.

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Hughes in particular, ( Officer in Command of IRA Intelligence and Communications and later to be appointed one of the first District Justices of the Irish Free State in 1923-interestingly, he was Anti-Treaty IRA during the Civil War ) along with solicitor, Connor A. Maguire ( Later to be appointed as Attorney General of the Irish Free State in 1932 ) as being responsible for the establishment of the Sinn Féin courts in South Mayo ( ergo Ireland ).