Sentences with word «magistracy»

Though congregations may be closely identified with specific political units, as were parishes in medieval Europe, local churches nevertheless resist total identification with their secular magistracy.

The other consideration is, that as the Vice-President may occasionally become a substitute for the President, in the supreme executive magistracy, all the reasons which recommend the mode of election prescribed for the one, apply with great if not with equal force to the manner of appointing the other.

«There has been a failure to provide adequate resources to the federal magistracy in this state.

«The Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice found that Mr Page's comments on national television would have caused a reasonable person to conclude he was biased and prejudiced against single sex adopters; they considered this to be serious misconduct which brought the magistracy into disrepute.

A spokesperson for the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said: «Mr Richard Page JP, a magistrate assigned to the Central Kent Bench has been removed from the magistracy.

«This is a clear demonstration of both the government's commitment to magistrates and its confidence in the magistracy,» a spokesperson told Politics.co.uk.

The Lammy review recommended that the government set a target of 2025 to achieve a representative judiciary and magistracy.

For example, public confidence in the magistracy may be damaged if a particular magistrate routinely quipped that he or she was confused by proceedings or unable to hear the participants.

Grand juries consisted of 23 local citizens empowered to indict those suspected of crime, a function now performed by the magistracy.