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district judge
(magistrates’ court) A barrister or solicitor of not less than seven years’ standing, appointed by the Lord Chancellor to sit in a magistrates’ court on a full-time salaried basis: formerly (before August 2000) called a stipendiary magistrate. Metropolitan district judges (magistrates’ court) sit in magistrates’ courts for Inner London; other magistrates sit in large provincial centres. They have power to perform any act and to exercise alone any jurisdiction that can be performed or exercised by two justices of the peace, except the grant or transfer of any licence. In other respects their powers are the same as other justices. |