Magistrates: Training

(asked on 15th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what anti-racism training is given to youth court magistrates.


Answered by
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Shailesh Vara
This question was answered on 20th January 2016

All judicial office holders are required to apply the law fairly and objectively regardless of the ethnicity of those who appear before them. A key principle of judicial training is that it should include the social context within which judges and magistrates operate, such as awareness of diversity issues. Additionally, the Judicial College, which oversees the delivery of judicial training on behalf of the Lord Chief Justice, maintains an Equal Treatment Bench Book to assist judicial office holders to deal fairly with those who appear before them. The Bench Book is publicly available at: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/equal-treatment-bench-book/

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