Please stay tuned, from lunchtime today the CBA will launch Episode 1 of our latest #CriminalJusticeMatters #podcast series, produced by CBA Treasurer @jamesdavidgray of @25BedfordRow, with grateful thanks, who diligently helps bring the reality of how criminal justice works when it’s properly funded and the dire consequences when it isn’t.
You will hear through the voices of real defendants, witnesses, complainants and victims, caught up in historic delays in our criminal courts whilst a shortage of barristers to prosecute and defend further restricts capacity.
The underfunding of the system has led to a huge backlog of around 68,000 cases in the Crown Court and 380,000 in the Magistrates’ Court. The human cost of this is dire but little is done to remedy the problem and it gets worse by the day.
During the few weeks over which we recorded Episode 1, another 3000 cases joined the Crown Court backlog, and 20,000 more joined the Magistrates’ Court backlog. A greater proportion than ever concern sexual offences which now account for over 1 in 7 of cases in the Crown Court backlog; this is up from 1 in 11 just 5 years ago when the backlog was under half its current size.
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