There can`t be anybody who`s not heard of or used the phrase, "there`s one law for them and another for us" the terms "them" and "us" being who the listener wants them to be. There is also the commonly accepted concept that the more of an object or a commodity one possesses the less value is perceived of a single item of that object or commodity. An obvious example is money. £10 to a receiver of social security and other benefits is worth almost literally infinitely more than the self same amount to a multi millionaire. And what has this to do with what is a magistrate`s blog or perhaps more accurately the thoughts of a retired magistrate? Confidence in equality before the law and confidence in those who administer the law are fundamental to our democratic well being.
At the last count earlier this year there were 12,651 magistrates in England and Wales whilst there were 3,174 judges of all levels of jurisdiction from county courts to the Supreme Court. However reading through just a single year of disciplinary cases (2021) and for...
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