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Tomorrow, nearly a third of Crown Courts will sit empty.
Not for want of judges - many full-time salaried judges will be paid to sit twiddling their thumbs at home.
But because the government won't pay to keep the courts open. Meanwhile, trials are being listed for Summer 2020.
Not for want of judges - many full-time salaried judges will be paid to sit twiddling their thumbs at home.
But because the government won't pay to keep the courts open. Meanwhile, trials are being listed for Summer 2020.
When the government boasts that it intends to be "tough on crime", it should be asked, repeatedly, why it is happy to let victims and those accused of serious violent and sexual offences wait for years on end for their cases to come to trial.
Any fool can tell a simpering tabloid that they support "tougher prison sentences". That does absolutely nothing to help those stuck in our broken criminal justice system, who have waited years for the police to investigate and then years for the courts to list their trials.
