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Then-justice secretary Dominic Raab doubled the jail terms that could be handed out by magistrates in 2022, in a bid to reduce the backlog of Crown Court cases exacerbated by the pandemic. The ...
Criminal courts and criminal supreme courts have 42,798 open cases, an increase of almost 15% between March 2020 and January 2022, OCA statistics show. Statewide, there are 2.1 million pending cases.
Record levels of violent and sex crime cases in courts backlog for over a year ... 2022 at 8:50 AM. A record proportion of violent and sex offence cases in the crown court backlog have been open ...
Diverting cases from the criminal courts will be considered as part of “radical” steps to tackle the backlog “crisis,” the head of a major justice review has said. Sir Brian Leveson said ...
In 2015, some 400 vacancies were reported in the 24 high courts. The Supreme Court backlog is 70,572 as of May 2, 2022. [57] Some 30 million cases await resolution in various courts. The budget allocation is a 0.2 per cent of gross domestic product. The judge-population ratio is 10.5 to one million, about 20% of the recommended 50 to one ...
The Government’s target of cutting the crown court backlog is “no longer achievable”, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found. A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) said the Ministry ...
Figures at the end of June showed there were record highs of nearly 61,000 outstanding crown court cases and more than 364,000 in magistrates’ courts. ‘Greatest threat’ to open justice is ...
The absolute sanctioned number of judges was 34 in Supreme Court, 1108 in high courts, and 24,631 in district courts. [16] The law commission of India and Justice V S Malimath Committee had recommended in the past to raise the number of judges to 50 judges per million population, or 20,000 population per judge.