So a thinktank wants to recruit 10,000 new lay magistrates. This country is still in love with the non-expert amateur. Think of all the training costs involved and the cost of the clerk who might have to accompany them to advise on points of law.
Meanwhile, a similar number of solicitors may be facing closure and bankruptcy, or redundancy. Why not recruit them as additional district judges, or, as I prefer to remember them, ‘stipes’?
Ian Craine, London N15
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