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Defendants are “taking advantage” of criminal court backlogs with delays leaving victims facing a three-year wait for some trials to start, the country’s top prosecutor has warned.
Judicial review is a part of UK constitutional law that enables people to challenge the exercise of power, usually by a public body. A person who contends that an exercise of power is unlawful may apply to the Administrative Court (a part of the King's Bench Division of the High Court) for a decision. If the court finds the decision unlawful it ...
The first governing body was composed of a Board of 15 Commission Members. The first chairman was Sir Frederick Crawford. [15] Contrary to common opinion, it is independent of the government and not a government organisation. [16] It is independent of the police, the courts and governments and any political body. [16]
Other responsibilities limited to England and Wales include the administration of all courts and tribunals, land registration, legal aid and the regulation of legal services, coroners and the investigation of deaths, administrative justice and public law, the maintenance of the judiciary, public guardianship and mental incapacity, supervision ...
Ministry of Justice statistics have revealed there were 59,532 outstanding cases at crown courts by the end of the first quarter of 2021. Crown courts facing record backlog of cases with almost ...
Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of devolution issues to the Supreme Court pursuant to Paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (No 2) [2019] UKSC 1: 14 January Constitutional law, Devolution in the UK: R (Hallam) v Secretary of State for Justice and R (Nealon) v Secretary of State for Justice [2019] UKSC 2
Among other measures, the act: Gives courts greater discretion to issue conditional discharges for young persons pleading guilty to a first offence [4]; The objectives of the Act included making significant savings in the cost of the scheme, [5] discouraging unnecessary and adversarial litigation at public expense, [5] and targeting legal aid to those who need it the most.
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