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The SJP allows magistrates to decide on minor offences, such as using a television without a licence or driving without car insurance, without defendants going to court.
Last year , 787,403 criminal cases were dealt with by magistrates’ courts under the SJP , following its introduction in 2015 .
Magistrates' Association has been calling for it to be more open and transparent, consistent and fairer.
She said: It seemed insane to me that any verdict can be done without you being there, and not because I had opted not to turn up, but because the system is that you don’t go.
I own a shop. If somebody comes in and says afterwards My child picked this up, I’m sorry’, and brings it back, she said. You fix it there and then. That is the common sense response, and I feel like with this, common sense was not prevailing.”.
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