John Thornhill, chairman of the Magistrates Association, has denied claims by the Prison Governors Association (PGA) that lay magistrates were caught up in a “feeding frenzy†of disproportionate sentencing in the wake of the riots.
A fraudulent will writer has been jailed for 14 months. Walter Ventriglia, who pleaded guilty to fraudulent trading at Reading Crown Court, received money from around 100 to 130 clients.
Managing partners need to get their heads out of the sand and start paying more attention to their career paths, suggest Rachel Brushfield and Patricia Wheatley-Burt
