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(Magistrates' Court) A barrister or solicitor of not less than seven years’ standing, appointed by the Lord Chancellor to sit in a magistrates’ court on a full-time salaried basis: formerly (before August 2000) called a stipendiary magistrate. Metropolitan district judges preside over magistrates' courts in Inner London, while other magistrates operate in major provincial centers. They possess the authority to execute any action and to independently exercise any jurisdiction that can be performed or exercised by two justices of the peace, with the exception of the granting or transferring of any license. In other aspects, their powers are equivalent to those of other justices.
(Magistrates' Court) A barrister or solicitor of not less than seven years’ standing, appointed by the Lord Chancellor to sit in a magistrates’ court on a full-time salaried basis: formerly (before August 2000) called a stipendiary magistrate. Metropolitan district judges preside over magistrates' courts in Inner London, while other magistrates operate in major provincial centers. They possess the authority to execute any action and to independently exercise any jurisdiction that can be performed or exercised by two justices of the peace, with the exception of the granting or transferring of any license. In other aspects, their powers are equivalent to those of other justices.
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