“Well, in the Crown Court, as I say, we’re sitting to maximum capacity.” Lady Chief Justice The Rt Hon Baroness Carr of #Walton-on-the-Hill to @CommonsJustice. @TheCriminalBar

“Well, in the Crown Court, as I say, we’re sitting to maximum capacity.” Lady Chief Justice The Rt Hon Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill to @CommonsJustice .

“So if there are empty courtrooms that are not being used, the reason will be either a lack of staff, lack of staff support, administrative support, security support and/or lack of judicial resource.   It will be one of those two reasons.   But I know it must feel slightly disconcerting when you go around the courts and you can see rooms that are not being used.  Sometimes there’s a good reason for it, if we’re sitting to capacity we simply can’t sit anymore, but if we’re sitting under capacity and there’s an available room then it will be staff shortages and the like that are to blame.”

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