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The Court Service - Executive agency providing admin support to a number of courts and tribunals in England and Wales. Site includes a description of the court system with a number of guides to recent changes.
The Criminal Justice System - Information on the workings of the criminal justice system in England and Wales.
Crown Prosecution Service - Describes the work of the agency that initiates proceedings against those charged with criminal offences in England and Wales.
The Law Commission - Independent body established by Parliament in 1965 to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reform when it is needed.
Boards of Visitors - Independent watchdogs responsible for conducting prison inspections in England and Wales. Site provides details of the Boards' work and how to apply to be a Visitor.
Legal Services Commission - Responsible for the development and administration of Community Legal Service and Criminal Defence Service, formerly known as legal aid. Includes information on what aid is available, how to apply and the qualification criteria.
Lord Chancellor's Department - Site details the department's role in the efficient administration of justice in England and Wales. Provides the text of various consultation papers and speeches.
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales - An executive non-departmental public body responsible for many aspects of youth justice. These include advising the Home Secretary on the operation of the justice system in delivering its aim of preventing offending by young people.
National Probation Service for England and Wales - Provides information on the role and activities of the NPS.
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales - Outlines the work of the Chief Inspector and his team.
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Legal System "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Legal System "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Legal System When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Legal System Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Legal System "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Legal System I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Legal System If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Legal System When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Legal System "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Legal System Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Legal System "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Legal System Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Legal System If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Legal System By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Legal System "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Legal System Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West Legal System "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Legal System Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Legal System Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Legal System "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Legal System "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Legal System
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