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Sweeping changes are being introduced into the lower-tier
magistrates' courts in England and Wales in efforts to modernise
the system and speed up case processing. They concentrate on
delivering prompt justice within a modern, efficient and
technologically advanced system. But these transformations are
fundamentally changing the way justice is delivered. This book
analyses criminal court streamlining processes and argues that
there are areas where due process protections are being undermined.
Transforming Summary Justice reports empirical research carried out
with lay magistrates and criminal justice professionals. Views and
experiences drawn from magistrates are valuable because of the
central role they perform in lower court justice. Further,
magistrates provide a wider understanding of the context in which
the lower criminal courts operate and enable a critical appraisal
of this unique style of 'lay justice'. This book is directed at
students of criminology, criminal justice and socio-legal studies,
who will find the debates stimulating and useful to engage with in
contemporary analyses of criminal court justice. It will also be of
interest to justice and legal professionals who are seeing
swingeing alterations to the field in which they work. The book
will have appeal in other common-law jurisdictions, where similar
modifications to lower court justice are occurring, and also across
Europe, where lay involvement in legal decision-making is being
debated and becoming accepted practice.
Sweeping changes are being introduced into the lower-tier
magistrates' courts in England and Wales in efforts to modernise
the system and speed up case processing. They concentrate on
delivering prompt justice within a modern, efficient and
technologically advanced system. But these transformations are
fundamentally changing the way justice is delivered. This book
analyses criminal court streamlining processes and argues that
there are areas where due process protections are being undermined.
Transforming Summary Justice reports empirical research carried out
with lay magistrates and criminal justice professionals. Views and
experiences drawn from magistrates are valuable because of the
central role they perform in lower court justice. Further,
magistrates provide a wider understanding of the context in which
the lower criminal courts operate and enable a critical appraisal
of this unique style of 'lay justice'. This book is directed at
students of criminology, criminal justice and socio-legal studies,
who will find the debates stimulating and useful to engage with in
contemporary analyses of criminal court justice. It will also be of
interest to justice and legal professionals who are seeing
swingeing alterations to the field in which they work. The book
will have appeal in other common-law jurisdictions, where similar
modifications to lower court justice are occurring, and also across
Europe, where lay involvement in legal decision-making is being
debated and becoming accepted practice.
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Something Right (Paperback)
Jenni Ward; Cover design or artwork by Andrea Fodor
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The Burden (Paperback)
Jenni Ward; Cover design or artwork by Open World Cover Designs
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Shiny (Paperback)
Jenny Ward
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