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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Britain’s creaking courts and the long wait for justice

Rape and sex crime victims face a game of “Russian roulette” in Britain’s broken justice system with more than 10,000 prosecutions stuck in a courts backlog, campaigners said today.

Ministers have been accused by Britain’s most senior judge of downgrading criminal justice to “just another service”, as the Government comes under pressure to commit to long-term increased investment in the ailing courts.

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