Operation #EarlyDawn
Last week +today never less than 124 and up to 136 Crown Court rooms
Shut every day Over 1 in 4 available but “not sitting” 25% to 27% shut
Why? Not enough judges and we who prosecute and defend bolster their numbers as recorders
Anyone pleading not guilty
Has a wait Join the queue Criminal barristers stand ready, as always, to ensure justice is done in the courts of England & Wales, working on back to back trials but still: Over 50 year record prisoners on remand 17,070 June 2024 10% 1yr 94% 5 1/2 yrs Includes convicted, unsentenced 6,043 13% 1yr held without trial 11,207 8% 11,027
And within the remand prisoner population – very many held without trial – “a substantial increase in the number of prisoners associated with a violence against the person offence” 51% in untried prisoner population 71% in convicted unsentenced prisoner population In 12 months to end June 2024 Not #swiftjustice
The time to invest in criminal barristers and solicitors is now if we want to manage caseload Invest in justice professionals to protect the innocent, convict those who have committed crimes and ensure the public is protected – every member both offenders, the falsely accused, victims of crime, the powerful and the vulnerable equally alike.
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