Further financing for judges to address the delays of the protocol court

The ministers have undertaken to increase the number of judges in order to reduce unprecedented residues and delays at Crown Courts in England and Wales.

The announcement of the Ministry of Justice that the judges will be financed to lead more court halls than before, since two highly critical reports say that victims of crime are failed.

The victim commissioner Baroness Newlove said that some victims of delays were so traumatized that they had used drugs, alcohol and self -harm.

The new financing means that judges can hear a total of up to 110,000 days of Crown Court cases, which begins Minister Hope to reduce a record backlog of 73,000 unsolved law enforcement measures.

Suspects who are accused of new crimes are regularly announced that there may be no legal proceedings by 2027 – and some courts are already looking for diary areas in 2028.

The delays, which were caused by a combination of cuts for dishes, pandemic and then by a strike of the payments against the payment, also led to a record in which 17,000 defendants were held in custody and took a fifth of the rooms in the prisons populated by crisis.

Last November, Baroness Sue Carr, the Supreme Richter, informed the parliament that she had enough judges available to sit in court for 113,000 days a year.

She said a cap on the sitting days had a “drastic effect”, whereby her local leaders should postpone cases and would have to cancel the work on part -time funnel, which are of crucial importance for the elimination of the backlog.

Justice Minister Shabana Mahmood said: “This government inherited an recording and an up -and -coming dish, whereby the judiciary was delayed and refused for far too many victims.

“If you deal with this deficit, it is an essential element of our change plan and brings offenders to court to protect our streets.”

Mahmood said that recommendations from an ongoing review of the acceleration of the criminal courts would play a key role in reducing the residues.

However, two reports have raised questions about how quickly the government is.

The victim commissioner Baroness Newlove said in a report published on Tuesday that Justice felt “out of reach” for many victims, which caused additional trauma.

A woman who had suffered sexual abuse tried to commit suicide after the trial against her attacker had been reset.

Baroness Newlove asked the government to reverse a planned reduction from around 4% to decisive support services that warned it to be under “immense pressure” because delays led to more than ever.

“With the abbreviations of the financing, we stand by the very real threat of reduced support,” she said.

“I fear that this will make some victims to give up justice – a second injustice that tightens the first.”

Regardless of this, the committee for public accounts of the parliament would be concerned that the MOJ had “accepted” the delays of the court until the recommendations from the most important review of the reform of the courts, led by judge Sir Brian Leveson, were implemented.

The report states that the courts with the rate of new cases that arrive at their doors could not keep up.

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, chairman of the committee, said: “Our report is a terrible indictment against our criminal justice system, and the government urgently has to reorganize to strive for this world-class standard for the UK earlier.”

Mary Prior KC, Chair of the Criminal Bar Association, which represents lawyers, said that 110,000 sitting days were the minimum required since 2022.

“We welcome these additional sitting days … but to do our collective best to reduce the gap, we have to ask for at least the next five years by unkempt sitting days in the Crown Court.”