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Defeat conceded on magistrates courts

01 January 1994

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Lord Chancellor Mackay climbed down on 2 February and abandoned proposals in the Police and Magistrates Courts Bill which would have made magistrates' courts far more centrally controlled. Proposals for "performance-related" pay, fixed term contracts and a centralised appointments system for justices' clerks were abandoned after a months-long fight by magistrates and their clerks supported by Law Lords, concerned at the erosion of the independence of the inferior courts. Proposals for central approval of chairs of magistrates courts' committees also bit the dust.

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