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The current Crown Court was established on 1 January 1972 by the Courts Act 1971, [6] establishing a unitary trial court for the whole jurisdiction. With the merging of the various court services into what is now HM Courts and Tribunals Service, the Crown Court frequently shares facilities with the County Court and magistrates' courts.
Anthony Rogers said measures like resorting to judge-only trials may need to be considered.
The Government’s target of cutting the crown court backlog is “no longer achievable”, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found. ... There were 67,492 outstanding crown court cases as of ...
A court case in the crown court of the fictional town of Fulchester (a name later adopted by Viz) would typically be played out over three afternoons in 25-minute episodes. The most frequent format was for the prosecution case to be presented in the first two episodes and the defence in the third, although there were some later, brief variations.
A record proportion of violent and sex offence cases in the crown court backlog have been open for at least a year, figures show. The Law Society of England and Wales, which represents solicitors ...
The Crown Court also hears appeals from magistrates' courts. The Crown Court is the only court in England and Wales that has the jurisdiction to try cases on indictment, and when exercising such a role, it is a superior court in that its judgments cannot be reviewed by the Administrative Court of the King's Bench Division of the High Court.
Ministry of Justice statistics have revealed there were 59,532 outstanding cases at crown courts by the end of the first quarter of 2021.
R v Peacock was an English Crown Court case that was a test of the Obscene Publications Act 1959. [1] In December 2009, the defendant, a male escort named Michael Peacock, had been charged by the Metropolitan Police for selling hardcore gay pornography that the police believed had the ability to "deprave or corrupt" the viewer, which was illegal under the Obscene Publications Act.