Magistrates are set to be given powers to jail criminals for longer under plans being considered by the Government to tackle the prison overcrowding crisis. Ministers are considering legal changes ...
Craig Michael Owston, 44, of Apollo Street, central York, pleaded guilty to two charges of breaching a noise abatement order at his home. He was fined £160 and ordered to pay a £64 statutory surcharge ...
Plans to double the length of jail sentences that can be handed out by magistrates are “a knee-jerk reaction” and will worsen the prisons overcrowding crisis, a lawyers’ group has said.
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba commissioned two new magistrates’ courts in Triangle and Chiredzi yesterday as part of the government’s efforts to decentralise... To access this post, you must purchase a ...