Adult court bench book and pronouncement cards courts. This edition brings it uptodate as the law stands at january 2018. It continues to be used not only as a reference source on the bench and in the retiring room, but also as an invaluable tool for training. The youth court bench book is a document provided to magistrates sitting in the youth court and dealing with defendants under the age of 18. In 2015, there were roughly 330 magistrates courts in england and wales, though the government was considering closing up to 57 of these. The bench book is supplemented by national sentencing guidelines, checklists and pronouncement cards. Updated youth court bench book 2017 youth justice law in. Html version best for online viewing pdf version best for printing. A resource for those presiding in the adult magistrates and youth courts. In england and wales, a magistrates court is a lower court which holds trials for summary offences and preliminary hearings for more serious ones. How offenders are sentenced in england and wales duration. Some civil matters are also decided here, notably family proceedings. Download the entire 2020 bench book in pdf format by clicking here. It is used for reference at court and to support consistent training.
The family court bench book will continue to be supplemented by the family court. Funded by a grant from the texas court of criminal appeals. This feedback has been carefully considered, and it was concluded, that the bench book should be in a new format, which would supplement the new adult court pronouncement cards. Supreme court of queensland equal treatment bench book ii a domestic and family violence 29. Crown court bench book directing the jury first supplement october 2011. The origin of this bench book may be said to lie in a collection of specimen charges to juries in criminal cases prepared more than thirty years ago by lord lowry lcj and widely used by the judges of the crown court, although developments in the criminal law since then meant that in many instances these specimen charges required extensive revision. Since the last adult court bench book was updated in 2008, the jsb has received considerable feedback from magistrates on its content and format. The compendium is intended to replace all of the guidance previously provided by the judicial college and its predecessor the judicial studies board namely. Foreword by the lord chief justice this new judicial studies board crown court benchbook was prepared by mr justice pitchford as he then was after he. Magistrates court bench book oct 2017 this benchbook flows, in the first. Childrens court bench book judicial college of victoria.