 In retrospect, Getzler expresses the opinion that the system of local justices would have fallen into further disrepute and ultimate decline and desuetude without these reforms.These Acts largely defined the modern system of summary and indictable offences within the Magistrates' Courts.The "Indictable Offences Act 1848" is important in that it is the first codification of the police caution in England and Wales, in the words