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Introduction The Strengthened Role project arises from the recommendations made in Lord Justice Auld's1 report , the Government’s White paper2 and the Courts Act 2003. In his review of the criminal justice system, Lord Justice Auld recommended that in order to improve national consistency in magistrates' training, the JSB should be made responsible and be adequately resourced for devising and securing the content and manner of training for all magistrates. In the Government’s White Paper response the recommendation stated that: “The Judicial Studies Board will have a much stronger role in magistrates’ training, to ensure more consistency in standards across the country though training will still be carried out locally. Priorities for training will need to be set.” The Courts Act 2003 provides for a unified administration that, in respect of the Magistrates’ Courts, will abolish the 42 Magistrates' Courts Committees and replace them with a two tiered structure of 42 local justice areas and 7 regions. Following the abolition of the Magistrates' Courts Committees, the responsibility for the training of magistrates will revert to the Lord Chancellor and on his behalf the JSB will have a 'stronger role' in magistrates' training. These factors combine to provide an opportunity, through JSB's new stronger role, to achieve greater national consistency in magistrates' training. The objective of the project is therefore to look at what the JSB's new strengthened role should entail and map out the structure for magistrates' training in the context of the new strengthened role and the new unified administration. See the:
1 Lord Justice Auld, Review of the Criminal
Courts of England and Wales, October 2001 Contacts Reach the Strengthened Role project team at:
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