Good evening, your magistracy

摘要

The West Midlands Branch held its fifth meeting of the 2019/2020 season on the evening of 11 February 2020 at which Trevor Higginbotham and Kirsty Cooke, who are Justices of the Peace (JPs), gave a presentation, titled: 'The magistracy'. Trevor has been in the nondestructive testing profession since the late 1960s, which is very well known to the Branch, and has been a JP since the early 1990s. Kirsty is also a JP and was one of Trevor's mentees when she first joined the magistracy. She very kindly agreed to co-present at this meeting. It may not be immediately obvious why the magistracy might be of interest to BINDT members but, as Trevor and Kirsty made clear, there are many parallels. For example, the qualities required of a JP include personal integrity, trustworthiness, team working and the ability to make very difficult decisions in a timely manner. Furthermore, since magistrates are volunteers, it is something that suitable people can do alongside their 'day job'. As it turned out, the presentation was found to be very interesting to those present.