Disgruntled magistrates issue concern over a system they say is “watering down justice”
(Picture: PA Archive)Disgruntled magistrates are refusing to sit in secretive court hearings over objections to a system they say is “watering down justice”, the Evening Standard has learned.
Hundreds of thousands of people are convicted each year in Single Justice Procedure (SJP) courts, which sit in private across England and Wales with just one magistrate deciding on criminal cases.
