Blog post: Magistrates hear 90% of criminal cases, slashing their resources will not help reduce the backlog Blog post: Magistrates hear 90% of criminal cases, slashing their resources will not help reduce the backlog A response to Transform Justice 29 November 2021 Transform Justice recently suggested reorienting existing resources from the magistrates’ courts to the Crown Court. The call to reorient resources would undermine work of the magistrates’ courts which has successfully worked to reduce the backlog in the magistrates' courts. Read more
Criminal court quarterly statistics Criminal court quarterly statistics New statistics 16 July 2021 Read more