Chair’s message Mary #Prior KC: In April 2022 the Justice Select Committee recommended that the Crown Court should sit a minimum of 110,000 sitting days . @TheCriminalBar

Listening   In April 2022 the Justice Select Committee recommended that the Crown Court should sit a minimum of 110,000 sitting days for a minimum of five years to reduce the backlog which had built up of 60,000 cases. The backlog had built up because of 15% cuts to the sitting days budget which meant that Recorders were only able to sit 15 days per year rather than 30. The backlog built up. The remand population built up. The recommendation was not implemented. The backlog is now at over 74,000 cases. The remand population now consists of one in five prisoners.

Chair’s message Mary Prior KC.

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