Just comes off Insta. It’s healthier. Not sure why I am even on this….just today.

Our chair Mary Prior KC writes that @CommonsPAC “holds government officials to account for the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of public spending. On the 13th February 2025 the PAC was Ordered by the House of Commons to print their report entitled “Crown Court backlogs.”

We make it plain that further delay and prevarication will lead to a mass exodus of Counsel who will simply turn to more lucrative work. Our patience should not be viewed as anything other than short-term and it masks frustration and anger and successive Governmental failures to listen and to act
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The recommendation was not implemented. The backlog is now at over 74,000 cases. The remand population now consists of one in five prisoners.

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Let’s start by using the resources we have.