Money is to blame. The Ministry of Justice has been squeezed hard by a decade of austerity
Delays and cancellations are rife across the justice system. Government figures to September 2022 show that 28% of crown-court cases have been outstanding for over a year, with a growing proportion of cases now waiting longer than two . Crunching through the backlog depends principally on the availability of barristers and judges: shortages of both are the most pressing constraints on progress. But the state of the courtrooms is not helping.
At another court, one judge lamented that a whole day was lost because, upon arrival, the prisoners couldn’t get off the prison van; the shutters of the loading bay were jammed and the defendants were driven back to their cells. No cases could be heard. “It all sounds very Fawlty Towers but actually, these things are not getting fixed,” says Lubna Shuja, the president of the Law Society.
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