08-01-2023, 06:13 PM
Danny Shaw
Sun, 8 January 2023 at 4:00 pm SGT
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Crown court backlogs grew in the months before the pandemic, because of limits imposed by the Ministry of Justice on how many days judges could sit for, and they have become much worse since then. The latest figures show that in October, there were more than 62,000 outstanding criminal cases, 3,000 more than a year earlier and a rise of 20,000 on the number before March 2020.
At the start of 2020, an offence was dealt with at a crown court about eight months after it was committed. Now, the average is 13 months, with serious or complex crimes taking even longer to conclude
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there were no hearings taking place; the main problem, it seems, is finding enough barristers.
Full report at: https://sg.style.yahoo.com/crown-court-w...00474.html
Sun, 8 January 2023 at 4:00 pm SGT
......
Crown court backlogs grew in the months before the pandemic, because of limits imposed by the Ministry of Justice on how many days judges could sit for, and they have become much worse since then. The latest figures show that in October, there were more than 62,000 outstanding criminal cases, 3,000 more than a year earlier and a rise of 20,000 on the number before March 2020.
At the start of 2020, an offence was dealt with at a crown court about eight months after it was committed. Now, the average is 13 months, with serious or complex crimes taking even longer to conclude
......
there were no hearings taking place; the main problem, it seems, is finding enough barristers.
Full report at: https://sg.style.yahoo.com/crown-court-w...00474.html