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justices of peace
justices of peace
Justices of Peace are lay magistrates who sit alone or in threes with a qualified legal assessor as convenor or clerk of court.
They sit in
District Courts
, and preside over cases of:
breach of the peace.
drunkenness.
minor assaults.
petty theft.
offences under the
Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982
.
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