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be given not only on permanent and pensionable officers:
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legal and judicial posts.
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where confidential reports on judges contain to your
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"promotion". However if there were only one grade of
magistrate, higher pay could presumably have to be by an extended incremental scale.
A further criticism is that no prior notice of the
charge or the case against the accused is given in
magistrates' courts. While in District Courts only a
short summary of the case against the accused is
supplied, this being shown an in an official agreement
10. It has also been suggested that greater use should
be made of lay magistrates for summary trials.
11. We should be glad.of comments on these various
criticisms.
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