A BURNLEY council candidate has been awarded a place on a board which selects magistrates for the town.
Rafique Malik, Labour candidate for Daneshouse, has been given a place on the Magistrates Advisory Committee for Burnley and Pendle.
Coun Malik said: "The first thing I will have to do is training in a couple of weeks, then I will work with the rest of the committee interviewing magistrate applicants."
He was shortlisted from a number of councillors who applied for a place on the board and interviewed by representatives of the Duchy of Lancaster -- which recruits magistrates in Lancashire while the rest of the country's magistrates are recruited by the Chancellor's Department.
Mr Malik said the committee consisted of six people -- four magistrates and two from outside the profession.
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