Sentence: To remain under curfew from 9pm to 5am for the next six months and to pay £400 compensation. London, who is on benefits, agrees to pay £20 a fortnight.
Sir Paul's verdict: "How depressing that this man is paying a fine to the state out of money from the state. He has committed a violent thuggish offence which is consistent with his history. He has so many convictions, it is depressing."
11.10am: Zbigniew Oplatkowski, 52, from Poland, was fighting extradition back to Poland, having been charged with fraud. He was arrested by British police in May and has been in custody since. He said his return would infringe the Human Rights Act and he faced degrading and inhuman treatment in a Polish jail.
Court decision: Ordered his extradition with a likely removal in October
Sir Paul's verdict: "The whole application of the Human Rights Act makes you have to ask is this frivolous and if it is frivolous what is the riposte to stop people making these frivolous claims. It certainly feels that way - that the Human Rights Act is being exploited. Listening to that case you don't get the impression it wasn't anything other than exploiting the act."
11.30am: Davis Oluwole, 32, father-of-two, living in a hostel in Barking in Essex, pleaded guilty to using a child's ticket at Euston train station on August 2 to avoid a full fare of £4.30. Oluwole has indefinite leave to remain but his application for British citizenship is threatened.
Sentence: 12 months' conditional discharge
Sir Paul's verdict: "It is a mess; a sad tale. Trying to pass off a child's ticket is absolutely hopeless. It all feels absolutely pointless. I am not sure what the answer is but it feels pointless."
11.50am: Teidja Weekes, 32, from Ilford, Essex, is charged with robbing a man of a mobile phone on April 17. He is not in court and there is confusion about whether he knew he was due to attend. His lawyer says he has had no contact. A probation officer, in court all morning, says Mr Weekes has an appointment with a probation officer later in the week. The court has three different addresses for him.
Sir Paul's verdict: "It doesn't feel a completely joined up system between probation and prosecution."
12pm: Deniro May, 19, from Shepherd's Bush, west London, pleaded guilty to driving a car without insurance and without a full licence. Police officers found several wraps of cannabis in the car although May was not charged with any drug offences. His car, an old Ford Focus, was impounded.
Sentence: 12-month conditional discharge, a driving disqualification for six months and £85 costs.
Sir Paul's verdict: "This man was prepared to drive without a licence so is he really going to be bothered by a ban? One would like to think there is some other sanction."
12.05pm: Sean D'Cruz, 22, of no fixed abode, is charged with stealing £87 worth of clothing from Primark in Oxford Street on September 1. He was given police bail and has failed to attend court. A warrant is issued for his arrest. Magistrate Daphne Wickham comments that: "if you arrest people with no fixed abode and give them unconditional bail it is hardly surprising they don't turn up."
Sir Paul's verdict: "If the guidelines say this man can be bailed, you have to question those guidelines."
12.10pm: Rakib Khalid, 26, from Hayes in Middlesex, was charged with drink driving after being stopped in his Volkswagen Golf in Piccadilly on August 26. He was marginally over the drink-drive limit. Khalid, who pleaded guilty, has been serving as a police community support officer with Thames Valley Police and as a result of this conviction faces losing his job and damaging a future career in the police. He said he drank two pints of beer and a vodka.
Sentence: One-year mandatory driving ban, a £400 fine, £15 victims' surcharge and £85 costs
Sir Paul's verdict: "It is very sad. It is a matter for Thames valley to decide his future but clearly this is going to be very damaging for him. But when you compare it to the other guy [Deniro May], he walked out being told no to do what he already shouldn't be doing while this man has been fined significantly more money, will lose more in terms of employment."
12.25pm: Roger Dakkash, 40, from Maida Hill, west London. Mr Dakkash is charged with "touching" an under age girl in a sexual way. He is bailed to return for a committal hearing in October.
Sir Paul's verdict: "The social worker has been in court since 10.15am and you have to question why she has had to wait for two and a quarter hours until the case is heard. You would not say this is efficient."
1.15pm: Arturas Kontrauskas, 19, a Lithuanian national living in Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, admitted possesion of a knife, which he was carrying after allegedly being threatened by a gang.
Sentence: 21 days' imprisonment - the minimum sentence.
Sir Paul's verdict: "What message does that send? Here's a guy who went and got a knife to use it and threaten other people and he is getting the minimum sentence."
2.30pm: Christina Hagler-Botsaris, 57, from Roehampton, south west London, admitted being drunk and disorderly at King's Cross station on August 28 and racially abusing a police officer.
Sentence: £105 fine, £85 costs, £15 victims' surcharge and £50 compensation to the officer. Hagler-Botsaris, who is on benefits, agrees to pay £10 a fortnight.
Sir Paul's verdict: "I wonder how many cases in this court building today have been caused by the problems of alcohol."
3.05pm: Edward Brender, 34, from Thornton Heath, Surrey, pleaded guilty to criminal damage at Clapham Junction rail s
tation, after breaking a fire alarm, and racially abusing an officer who arrested him. Brender has a history of criminal damage and drunkenness.
Sentence: Banned from any pub for 12 months and fined £110, a £15 victims' surcharge with £85 costs.
Sir Paul's verdict: "The magistrate has done as much as he can possibly do."
3.15pm: Gilberto Barbosa, 41, from Battersea, south London. Barbosa, a hairdresser from Brazil, is charged with four counts of possession with intent to supply drugs. He pleads guilty to the offences but the prosecutor wants him sent to crown court for sentencing. Barbosa's lawyer argues that the case should be dealt with by magistrates. The district judge sets a date for a hearing to decide if the magistrates' court should deal with it.
4.20pm: Tharan Singham, 44, from Harrow, Middlesex, a convicted benefits fraudster, was arrested for non payment of a £56,000 confiscation order. His lawyer argues that he was not aware of the order. He was jailed for 45 weeks for the benefits offence.
Sentence: The magistrate concludes he did know and jailed him for 639 days.
Sir Paul's verdict: "That was pretty impressive. The judge saw through his lies."
