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I’m sorry Your Lordship, but the only way that this is ever likely to work, in the sense of achieving anything like consistency and fair play in the Magistrates Courts, is to replace all Lay Magistrates with appropriate qualified (presumably) District Judges sitting alone, (maybe we could simply rename them District Courts), or have you forgotten how well this used to work long ago, and the appearances in your early days at the Bar before Stipendiary Magistrates who clearly knew their job!

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