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The Law Show is your guide to the law and the legal decisions that have a bearing on everyone in the UK.

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The Law Show: A Day in the Life of a Magistrate

A Day in the Life of a Magistrate

24/02/2015

BBC Radio 4 - The Law Show, A Day in the Life of a Magistrate

Would the system of lay magistrates be invented today? Presented by Joshua Rozenberg.

Legal magazine programme. As magistrate numbers fall, Joshua Rozenberg goes to Bradford to meet one. Would the system of lay magistrates be invented today?

As magistrate numbers continue to fall Joshua Rozenberg goes to Bradford to meet one of 300 who sit on the bench there. Would the system of lay magistrates - with no legal qualifications - be invented today? The answer is an intriguing one.

Also in the programme: do the police now need a code of conduct on ethics and social media? And the small square of land on the Arabian Peninsula where English common law holds sway.

Producer: Tim Mansel
Editor: Richard Knight.

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