Something has gone wrong’ with how CPS treated Nottingham victims’ families, says top KC
“Lawyer says court backlogs and a lack of barristers meant the reasons for different outcomes were not explained to relatives. Tana Adkin KC, chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, said that court backlogs and a lack of barristers meant the reasons for different outcomes were not explained to victims’ families.
She told BBC Radio 4: “Something seems to have gone wrong here. Of course victims and their families should have had all of these matters explained to them.
“For instance the differences in the law, the differences in sentencing powers of the court, and that this gentleman was found to have a mental illness which had a significant impact on the powers of the courts.
” Ms Adkin added: “The problem is certainly with our backlog and our lack of barristers. We are, I’m afraid, up against it as far as time is concerned. “And perhaps somewhere along the line people have forgotten that they need to spend proper time explaining the sentencing process of the courts to people that are grieving.”” telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/2
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