The very best wishes of the season to you all.
Had I been a bit more organised I would have posted that before Christmas, but hey ho.
I really appreciate everyone giving their valuable time to read, comment and share my musings. I am truly humbled at the growing army of regular readers who keep returning for more.
To mark the end of the year I thought I'd give a quick chart run down of the top ten Magistrates' Blog articles for 2025 based on page views.
Some of these are timeless classics, but there are also a few new entries in this year's top ten.
#10 - Magistrate Interview Process
- Creeping in at the number 10 spot this year, down from number 6 last year, is my article about the interview process. There are two interviews, which quite often take place on the same day. The first stage interview is used to evaluate an applicant's general suitability for the role; the second stage interview is used to gauge their potential judicial aptitude.
- In this article I recount a fairly typical day in the traffic court. The traffic court is a bit different to the other work of the court. For many of those attending, it will be their first experience of the court system. Virtually all will be unrepresented; virtually all will have an opinion on whether or not they should actually be there!
- An explainer article about the latest fad of "social media auditing". If you don't know what that is, how lucky are you?!
- A bit of a strange inclusion this one, as it is oldish news from the first half of 2024. For whatever reason, no doubt Google-related, is still brings in the visitors.
- This one took the top spot last year. It recounts the embarrassing tale of the Derbyshire man prosecuted for saying "no shit" to a delicate police officer.
- Rochdale brothers Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad went on trial in relation to a widely publicised police assault that took place at Manchester Airport. The jury was unable to reach a verdict in relation to their alleged assault occasioning actual bodily harm of PC Zachary Marsden, which will be subject to a retrial in the Spring of 2026.
- Dean Juric, now the ex-headteacher of St Robert of Newminster Catholic School, Washington, Tyne and Wear, was caught by an undercover police officer posing as the grandfather of a 7-year-old girl. A search of his devices uncovered almost 400 indecent images of children, of which 31 were Category A.
- Another timeless classic that didn't feature in last year's top ten, but seems to have gathered momentum this time around. As the title suggests, this article touches on the wide-ranging power of the court to disqualify a person from driving for a non-driving offence.
- This was only published in August, but has done exceptionally well since then. Discharges are the lowest penalty the court can impose. This article gives the lowdown on what they are and how they work.
- This complete loser is the subject of this year's accidental winner. Towards the end of 2025 it was finally confirmed, after months of speculation, that social media auditor Curtis Arnold (AKA Daniel J. Edwards and DJE Media) is a convicted sex offender. As I say, speculation was rife for months before then. People were frantically Googling for information about this most undesirable of social misfits, which led them to this article.
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