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1 results foundAuthor: McCoard, Shirley Title: Summary Justice Reform: Lay Justice Evaluation Summary: The research is part of a wider package of work to evaluate summary justice reforms (SJR) in Scotland as a whole, as well as a number of other individual areas of reform. This report focuses solely on the reforms to lay justice, and is the third publication in the series of SJR evaluation reports. The overarching objectives of SJR were to achieve a summary justice system that is fair to victims, witnesses and the accused; effective in deterring, punishing and helping to rehabilitate offenders; efficient in the use of time and resources; and quick and simple in delivery. The specific policy objectives of the reforms to lay justice were to ensure fair and open recruitment of Justices of the Peace (JPs) from across the community; enable the more extensive use of better trained, more professional lay Justices; ensure that the share of business in the JP courts would be, at the least, similar to the level in the district courts; make better use of the JP courts in terms of the profile of cases dealt with; and ensure that the ability of the public and professionals to access signing services remained stable or improved post-reform. In summary, the evaluation focused on the type and volume of cases that JPs deal with; the impact (and perceived impact) of changes to recruitment, training and appraisal; and the relation of the above to the overarching objectives and intended outcomes of SJR as a whole, in particular the intended outcome ‘appropriate allocation of case to forum, including sufficient use of better-trained lay Justices’. Details: Edinburgh: Scottish Government Social Research, 2011. 88p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 21, 2011 at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/11/14103952/0 Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/11/14103952/0 Shelf Number: 123415 Keywords: Courts (Scotland)Justices of the Peace |