Reference
ACC/C1/18
Title
File re appointments to the Bench
Date free text
1986
Production date
From: 1986 To: 1986
Scope and Content
Includes: correspondence re Lord Chancellor's worries over magistrates in debt; citizen's complaint to the Lord Chancellor concerning "soft" sentencing by Dunstable Magistrates of a gang who perpetrated car thefts; a magistrate's dissatisfaction with the bench rota and reservations about "Means Enquiry or Arrears Courts" and "Thursday Courts"; magistrate who considered he was breaking the law as an official of SOGAT '82 (a Union which had had its funds sequestrated); Magistrates fined under Fixed Penalty Offences; statistics re deaths, resignations and transfers of magistrates; correspondence re disclosure of names of Advisory Committee; and alleged homosexuality of a candidate.
Level of description
item
Closed until
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