Excellent FT article on the terrible situation in criminal courts. Police not investigating and charging crime gets more attention, but the sad truth is for many crimes, the state of the courts risks making police investigations irrelevant www.ft.com/content/e111...
[FREE TO READ] A record backlog of criminal trials has left lawyers ‘drowning in cases’. Henry Mance goes in search of the answers
Between 2010 and 2019, over half of courts permanently closed. Backlog started, made worse by the pandemic n today's courts, many in disrepair. This is just another example of the UK in chronic decline. Can the decline ever be reversed. Our current polity gives me no hope.
The totally unreasonable fury I feel when an article is listed by the paper as “Free to Read”, but actually requires a subscription. 😂😤
If you search "Bob pinker cornwall" online, you will find a simple £700k fraud thats now in its sixth year waiting to find a court 🤬🤬 Cameron & Osborne's austerity project has destroyed so much of value