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  1. Italian magistrates open urgent probe into pardon for former Berlusconi showgirl

    By Crispian Balmer ROME, April 28 (Reuters) – Italian magistrates said on Tuesday they had opened urgent checks…
    #Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #JusticeMinistry #magistrates #NicoleMinetti #presidentialpardon #SergioMattarella #SilvioBerlusconi
    europesays.com/italy/10720/

  2. Peter Hain says #UK govt digging itself into hole over #Palestine Action

    “It will end in tears for the government,” he said. “We are seeing retired #magistrates, retired * serving #doctors * all sorts of people being #arrested * now effectively being equated with terrorists such as al-Qaida, which is absolutely wrong”

    If legal challenge to proscription is successful, it would be a mercy to all, including the government

    theguardian.com/politics/2025/

    #ToxicLabour #authoritarian #FreeSpeech

  3. #UK Pensioner, 82, convicted of unpaid car tax while in hospital for toe amputation

    When prosecuted in scandal-hit #SingleJusticeProcedure, #secretive court, octogenarian wrote in to explain his medical woes, with copy of #hospital record

    Not enough to avoid #criminal #conviction

    #Elderly & #vulnerable are regularly harshly convicted over unpaid household bills a system dogged by #scandals where #magistrates sit in #private dealing with low-level criminal cases

    msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/pens

  4. "Twelve warrants were checked at random from the stack of 131 applications. Two failed, ten passed, and then 129 warrants were approved en masse."
    So most likely, they mass approved 21 warrants they should have refused. This is not how the Courts should be operating.
    #Justice #Magistrates #Courts
    standard.co.uk/news/uk/courts-

  5. @ExtinctionR the usual directive to #magistrates is to modify a sentence downwards if the original sentence is unworkable. If no other factors are involved then #prison would not be an option otherwise it would have been imposed or suspended at the first instance. The only way that prison could be imposed is if the defendant refused to accept a lower penalty. I suspect #misinformation or #disinformation is at work here.

  6. CW: Sexual assault

    "The magistrate ruled “not guilty”. In summing up how he reached his decision, he explained that to be found guilty would have a huge impact on the man’s life, and while he was sure I intended to be reliable, there was a very real possibility that as I was pregnant I was in a heightened emotional state and could not be relied on to give an accurate account."

    WTF

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #Magistrates #SexualAssault #UKlaw #CourtSystem #LegalSystem #ViolenceAgainstWomen #Misogyny

  7. The #Magistrates#Court in #Sibu sentenced a 30-year-old man to two months in prison for obstructing an #auxiliary #policeman from discharging his duties

    #Magistrate Romario Jonoi #convicted Norbert Kwok from Sibu Jaya on his own guilty plea to a charge under Section 186 of the Penal Code

    He committed the offence on March 20 at 1.05pm at #SibuAirport

    He had trespassed into Sibu #Airport’s departure hall without #flight ticket and permission

    Read more: theborneopost.com/2024/03/25/m

    #SBW #WBGS

  8. The #Magistrates#Court in #Sibu sentenced a 30-year-old man to two months in prison for obstructing an #auxiliary #policeman from discharging his duties

    #Magistrate Romario Jonoi #convicted Norbert Kwok from Sibu Jaya on his own guilty plea to a charge under Section 186 of the Penal Code

    He committed the offence on March 20 at 1.05pm at #SibuAirport

    He had trespassed into Sibu #Airport’s departure hall without #flight ticket and permission

    Read more: theborneopost.com/2024/03/25/m

    #SBW #WBGS

  9. The #Magistrates#Court in #Sibu sentenced a 30-year-old man to two months in prison for obstructing an #auxiliary #policeman from discharging his duties

    #Magistrate Romario Jonoi #convicted Norbert Kwok from Sibu Jaya on his own guilty plea to a charge under Section 186 of the Penal Code

    He committed the offence on March 20 at 1.05pm at #SibuAirport

    He had trespassed into Sibu #Airport’s departure hall without #flight ticket and permission

    Read more: theborneopost.com/2024/03/25/m

    #SBW #WBGS

  10. The #Magistrates#Court in #Sibu sentenced a 30-year-old man to two months in prison for obstructing an #auxiliary #policeman from discharging his duties

    #Magistrate Romario Jonoi #convicted Norbert Kwok from Sibu Jaya on his own guilty plea to a charge under Section 186 of the Penal Code

    He committed the offence on March 20 at 1.05pm at #SibuAirport

    He had trespassed into Sibu #Airport’s departure hall without #flight ticket and permission

    Read more: theborneopost.com/2024/03/25/m

    #SBW #WBGS

  11. @Teri_Kanefield

    (2/3)
    "...The principle of #collegiality provided that each of the..."#magistrates of the same level (e.g., the two consuls) who held it should hold it to the same degree."

    And then there is another failed safeguard in the #AmericanExperiment, #TermLimits, not just for #POTUS.
    #Democracy requires regularly changing incumbents, but not annually, as in #Rome:

    "#Imperium was officially conferred by the #Comitia #Curiata (a..."

    newsweek.com/dianne-feinstein-