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Justices of the Peace are to be found in all parts of the United Kingdom, the system having been extended on the English pattern at various stages in our history, but it was only in England and Wales that they flourished continuously to the present day; elsewhere much of their court work was transferred to professional magistrates.
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The first was P. J. Rose, formerly Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, who was appointed in 1950.
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Skyrme, T. (1983). Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. In: The Changing Image of the Magistracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17241-2_15
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