magistracy

Example Sentences

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"These new guidelines will further help ensure the consistent effectiveness of the magistracy," he said.

From BBC

Hamilton asked: “How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?”

From Washington Post

"The Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice concluded that this behaviour amounted to serious misconduct and have removed Mr Atwal from the magistracy."

From BBC

"So far as the magistracy is concerned, its unique characteristic as a voluntary body of lay judicial office holders must be preserved; so too, the independence of the legal advice it receives."

From The Guardian

"The magistracy is not a political organization, what magistrates do is not political and the objectives of magistrates are not political," he told SkyTG24 television.

From Reuters