“The justice committee of MPs @CommonsJustice and other experts have repeatedly warned of shortcomings in @MOJ. @TheCriminalBar

“The justice committee of MPs @CommonsJustice  and other experts have repeatedly warned of shortcomings in MOJ  data,

with The Independent highlighting one case in November in which the ministry mistakenly said scores of defendants had been jailed

while awaiting trial for five years, when in fact none had. Speaking to the committee in 2022, the ministry’s top civil servant Antonia Romeo

[@AntoniaRomeoUK] insisted it was a “very data and evidence-based organisation” with “a lot of excellent analysis and a lot of data”.

Stressing the importance of accurate data for the well-being of the court system, Ms Romeo told MPs: “A lot of what we do is to take

the flow through the whole of the criminal justice system, so we have to get our forecasting, data and evidence right.”

However, the performance of the courts for the past nine months is currently a mystery, with experts fearing the backlog of trials

waiting in the system may have soared to a grim new record of more than 70,000, up from just under 33,000 five years ago.”

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