Over recent weeks it has become apparent that many visitors to the Magistrates' Blog are searching for Magistrates' and Crown Court listings.
Daily Crown Court listings are available online via the Ministry of Justice's XHIBIT system. XHIBIT listings are not normally publicly available until around 10 am on the day of listing.
The CourtServe website also provides daily Crown Court listings and quite often has listings for the following day too.
Unfortunately Magistrates' Court listings are not made publicly available beforehand. The press and media do get advance listing information, which allows them to be at the right place at the right time for reporting purposes. These advance lists summarise the offences each defendant is charged with.
Any member of the public can walk into a Magistrates' or Crown Court and view the daily lists on display in the building. These will give the name of the defendant, time of hearing, courtroom and the name of the prosecuting authority. Charges are not shown on these display lists.
Occasionally details are redacted from the publicly displayed lists for legal reasons - e.g. the names of defendants under the age of 18.
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