Examining magistrate

Investigating magistrate generally stands for judges who lead the preliminary investigation in criminal proceedings and denotes:

• Investigating magistrate (Switzerland) : Public officials in the context of criminal investigations
• In Germany today a slang term for the investigating judge
• Juge d'instruction : Head of criminal investigations in France
• Investigating magistrate (Austria) : Head of criminal investigation proceedings in Austria until the Criminal Procedure Reform Act, Federal Law Gazette I No. 19/2004, came into force on January 1, 2008

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.