Hull Local Education Authority is setting up the court with help from the Center for Court Innovation, the American group that helped set up the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre and New York's Red Hook centre (YPN, 14-20, July 2004, p9).
Young people will decide how their peers who have pleaded guilty to low-level offences such as antisocial behaviour can put things right. The sessions, which will take place in school, will be overseen by a figure such as a magistrate or a teacher.
The Center for Court Innovation will train the young people from the end of next month.
The initiative will then be evaluated by the Institute for Public Policy Research to inform the possible development of similar projects elsewhere.
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