Abstract
This article draws cameo portraits from observational research of the working lives of three diverse district judges (magistrates' courts), exercising their criminal jurisdiction in a variety of courts. It puts flesh on the bones of previous statistical research. Its purpose is to provide an insight into their day-to-day working world and their approach to it, especially the unseen youth court, for those of us who are unfamiliar with it, such as academics, many practising lawyers and other levels of the judiciary.
‘Here, it's like easyJet. You turn up and take off.’
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