0 (in Wales and England until 1971) one or more of the meetings of the most important court in each county, usually held four times a year by a travelling judge --
A magistrates' court has no power to vary an order for disqualification from driving imposed on conviction at assizes or equivalent courts.
It did not, however, relieve them of the onerous and comparatively unremunerative work of summoning jurors and attending at assizes.
It reviews the arrangements for legal aid at assizes and quarter sessions in trials on indictment, and in magistrates' courts.
The former (the convicted prisoners) include several prisoners who were convicted by juries at assizes.
The case is tried not even at quarter sessions, but at the assizes, with the full panoply of an assize trial.
He was forced to the trouble of obtaining a trial by special jury at the next assizes, and sent detailed advice to ensure a list of suitably compliant jurors.
Twenty-nine suspected rebels were sentenced to remain imprisoned without bail, thirteen were granted bail to appear at the next assizes, and twenty-nine more were freed by proclamation.
Constitutional debates were only rarely conducted outside the assizes of the drafting groups, and in most cases the finished product, while often the subject of intense public discussion, remained unaltered.
