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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Secret courts: apology over 1,000 cases held behind closed doors

(Nick Ansell/PA)

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Justice chiefs have apologised after more than 1,000 London court cases were conducted in secret, in a controversial process that prosecutors believe they are forced to use.

Parents accused of having truanting children, train fare dodgers, disabled parking badge abusers and litterbugs were among those involved in the secret court sessions at Barkingside magistrates’ court this summer.

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