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The criminal justice system in England & Wales is gridlocked.
The rate of completions is countered by new receipts. The system has maxed out on its throughput & bandwidth.
Rape cases take 4/5 years.
The risk of miscarriages of justice both ways is huge. What’s the solution, how about mandatory fines for non violent fines in a taper system ?
My only engagements with the legal system were once when Arriva Trains Wales took me to court over a £2.80 train fare, and secondly when I did jury service. The former made me lose respect for the justice system, the latter gave me an enormous respect for it. I absolutely loved doing jury service.
In both cases it did strike me that the the processes were very very admin heavy. Naturally so as justice can't be rushed, but I had a sense that some of the processes could be made a little more efficient.
Goodness, I have a shadow tonight! I would commission an investigation into means in which efficiencies could be made in the legal system so as to speed up the justice system. No doubt the government announcing such a system would lead to some totally calm analysis of the governments aims on CCMB
That's not a solution though by your standards. If I said the answer to the asylum seeker problem, which let's face it is more novel than the inefficiencies of the criminal justice system, was that we should commission an investigation into means in which efficiencies could be made into the asylum system so as to speed it up you would no doubt have your views on whether the CCMB's analysis was on the money or not!
Trail by TV audiences is the answer with viewers deciding whose guilty or innocent.
I am doing the French Revolution for my OU Degree at the moment.
The assignment I am doing is about the Reign of Terror when Madame La Guillotine did her early work.
Perhaps the Government could bring this in. It would have two benefits
Cut the court case backlog (see what I did there!) by doing what the French did, suspend legal assistance and public trials ( and who need a jury anyway!!)
On reflection I should have made this a reply to LOM's Trial by television post!
Help the exchequer by doing what the Nazis did and invoice the families of the executed for the cost!
Shall I write to Priti, Douglas and Rishi?
(Perhaps this should have been a reply to LOM's Trial by television post!)