John Bache, the Chairman of the Magistrates Association has stated recently that taking on more magistrates with criminal records would help increase diversity.

Interested to hear whether anybody on theForum has ever applied to become a magistrate and if so, what was the result?

https://news.sky.com/story/people-with-criminal-records-urged-to-become-magistrates-11479016

Debs

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