clerk to the justices

The local authority appealed and the clerk to the justices subsequently sent to the court extended reasons for the justices' decision.

Clerk to the justices Robert Whitehouse said the £400 screens should arrive within a few weeks.

He was a leading member of the Freemasons and was appointed Clerk to the Justices.

Mr Needham was previously Clerk to the Justices who were ultimately responsible for his tenure.

Jack, now 86, was a magistrates' clerk in Yarmouth, later becoming clerk to the Justices, and the couple lived with his mother and father at first.

On the formation of the Wakefield Borough Commission in March 1870 he was elected clerk to the justices, an office which he retained until his death.

The secretary of every club was required to give a return to the clerk to the justices of the petty sessional division a return with this information:

'But as Physician Scawsby will testify, as Clerk to the Justices I have viewed enough corpses and have some knowledge of.'

P.M.C., as he was known, was an amateur archaeologist and historian at this time, whilst working full-time as Clerk to the Justices at Ramsey.

He served as Clerk to the Justices at Barmouth from 1948 to 1975, and as a deputy circuit judge in the Crown Court from 1975 to 1980.

Mr John Astbury, Clerk to the Justices, said yesterday he had heard suggestions on Wednesday that Mr Boswell, 62, had nodded off.

The Shire Clerk, he found, was also the storekeeper, Clerk to the Justices, Shell agent, aerodrome manager, postman, and registrar of births, deaths, and marriages.

He spent some time from 1958 onwards as Clerk to the Justices at Wrexham Magistrates' Court, before establishing his own chambers in Chester on his return to the bar.

That important point is well argued in an article in' Justice of the Peace'by Mr. T. G. Moore, who is deputy clerk to the justices in Nottingham.

'information is laid for the purposes of section 127 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 when it is received at the office of the clerk to the justices for the relevant area'.

Trevor Isles who's Deputy Clerk to the Justices in north Oxfordshire is also confident the unit fine system will be fairer, he says 'if successful, it could be adopted on a national scale'.

The office of justices' clerk (or clerk to the justices) is historically linked with the development of the office of justice of the peace in England and Wales from the 12th century.

Unknown to the defendant and his solicitor, the clerk to the justices was a member of the firm of solicitors acting in a civil claim against the defendant arising out of the accident that had given rise to the prosecution.

Leon served as a law clerk to the justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1974 to 1975 and to Thomas F. Kelleher of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1975 to 1976.

After being called to the bar, he practiced in and around London and became deputy clerk to the justices in inner London for two years before becoming clerk to the justices in Ashford, Kent.

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.

Meanwhile, Justices of the Peace were being advised in their Petty Sessions work by the Justices' Clerk (or Clerk to the Justices), an office which still exists in England and Wales today as the principal legal adviser in Magistrates' Courts.

A Justice of the Peace may sit at any magistrates' court in England & Wales but in practice, are appointed to their local bench, (a colloquial and legal term for the local court), and are provided with advice, especially on sentencing, by a legally qualified Clerk to the Justices.

Statements of evidence and a psychiatric report prepared for the hearing were ruled inadmissible on the advice of the clerk to the justices on the ground that as the proceedings were not family proceedings within the meaning of the Act of 1989, the Children (Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence) Order 1991 did not apply.