Sick pensioners and vulnerable people could be saved from criminal conviction by magistrates sitting in the controversial Single Justice Procedure, a Justice Minister has said.
An Evening Standard investigation into the secretive courts system hasrevealed miscarriages of justice and a slew of harsh criminal penalties beinghanded out to cancer patients, dementia sufferers, people battling mentalhealth struggles, and those saddled with mounting debts in the cost-of-livingcrisis.
