NCJ Number
85288
Journal
Justice System Journal Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1982) Pages: 124-134
Date Published
1982
Length
11 pages
Annotation
Although most of the English court system is centrally financed, the magistrates' courts, which dispose of well over 90 percent of all criminal cases in the country, are funded by a combined central-local mechanism.
Abstract
Paying for these courts thus presents many of the accompanying strains familiar to court personnel in the United States. There are considerable differences as well; for one thing, the justices, in the main, receive no salary. In this note, Professor Scott and Mr. Booth examine these courts and their financing. The slow change occurring in a centuries-old institution provides an occasion to contrast American experience with efforts to modernize, yet retain the essence of, the English magistracy. (Author abstract)