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Middlesex Quarter Sessions. The are over which the Quarter Sessions for the County of Middlesex has jurisdiction is now much smaller than formerly, owing to the extension of the County of London, which has its own sessions (London Sessions). As a result, the Middlesex Sessions are no longer presided over by a paid judge and his assistant, but by an unpaid chairman and vice-chairman, as in other counties. Middlesex Sessions are held at the Guildhall, Westminster, and are not to be confused with London Sessions, which are presided over by a paid chairman and deputy-chairman, now held at the Sessions House....
Indictment
Indictment [fr. indico, Lat., to show], a written accusation against one or more persons of a crime formerly preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury. Grand juries were partly abolished by the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Pro-visions) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 36). The bill of indictment is now preferred by any person before a court in which a person charged may lawfully be indicted, and the proper officer shall, if the requirements have been complied with, sign the bill and it shall thereupon become an indictment. But bills of indictment may be preferred before grand juries of the Counties of London and Middlesex by virtue of certain enactments set out in the 1st Schedule (high treason and certain other offences tribal in the King's Bench Division). Indictments were of a highly technical character until simplified by the Indictments Act, 1915, which directs that the particulars of the offence shall be 'set out in ordinary language.' See also Indictments Pro...
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