1.   For most people their only experience of the law in action is likely to be the local magistrates court.

2.   Local magistrates are expected to respect the law and provide even-handed justice.

3.   The local magistrate might not believe in the frayed elastic, either, if the McReady family were pillars of the kirk.

4.   Bar staff who serve drunk drivers are liable to get hauled up in front of the local magistrate.

5.   Chose to take their case before the local magistrate.

6.   Local magistrates also abused their authority in order to influence voters.

7.   Refusing an order to appear before a local white magistrate, his father was stripped of his title, his land, his herd and revenue.

8.   The goal was to bring the entire judiciary, from local magistrates to Supreme Court justices, on line with a single computer system.

9.   There is still no police force, no local magistrates, no electricity, no telephones.