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Examining Justice

In the adversarial system of UK law, England and Wales, an examining justice is a form of lay judge who presides over the Magistrates Court. They are highly trained and powerful individuals, hand picked by the Lord Justice of the United Kingdom who presides over both summary and either-way offences in the criminal courts as well as family, youth and civil courts.

They have powers of administering unlimited fines, penalties, custodial sentences of up to 12 months, court orders and other warrants such as §135 of the mental health act, or §1 of the Magistrates Court act at their own discretion, either internally or externally to the courtroom.

An examining magistrate will initiate a single justice procedure to sentence a serious offender instead of sitting in a panel. They blur the lines between district judges.

They have powers to authorise wiretaps, sentence at will, commit to the crown court and authorise private investigations. An examining magistrate may also prosecute at their private capacity.
I was locked up by an Examining Justice the other week.
by Lutonlegal February 17, 2025
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precursery examination

An assortment of inspections and tests that a pediatrician and/or child psychologist performs on a toddler during the time when he's just learning to talk, in order to determine the likelihood that he will develop a "potty mouth".
A precursery examination is all well and good, but I think that a physician should also check on how the child's PARENTS AND SIBLINGS "behave themselves" verbally, as well --- whether or not THEY exhibit a perpetually "salty" vocabulary is often a much-better indication of whether Little Junior is going to begin acquiring a "colorful" vocabulary than the results of any physical/medical tests!
by QuacksO November 26, 2018
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examine

to study a place,animal,sickness .....(etc) by searching it on the internet reading books about it or asking a professional about it .
The verb examine means to study something carefully and in great detail. You can examine a book, a painting, a person's face and so on. Right now, you are examining the meaning of examine. Examine means to look at something very closely and usually with the purpose of making a judgment.

-she was exploring the newly discovered mountain.

- they were searching the old haunted house.
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Examine

To inspect (a person or a thing) to determine its nature or condition; to scrutinize
I am going to examine the ingredients and nutrition facts inside the things I buy
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Prostate Examination

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Did you hear about my Prostate Examination? It caused the world eternal damnation!
by Jungle Fungus September 11, 2025
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