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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Justice chiefs accused by MPs of failing to act quickly to tackle spiralling courts crisis

Justice chiefs have been “tinkering at the edges” of the courts crisis and failing to deliver a plan to bring the record backlog of cases down, MPs say in a damning new report.

The Crown Court backlog has spiralled to more than 73,000 cases with the system mired in chronic delays and some trials being listed as far away as 2028.

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