Part of Justice – in the House of Commons at on 28 January 2025.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
Chair, Public Accounts Committee, Chair, Public Accounts Committee
The Justice Secretary has said that she agrees with the old legal maxim that justice delayed is justice denied. We currently have a record backlog of 73,000 in the Crown courts; rape cases are not being prosecuted for three or four years; and, in particular, on any one day 25% of cases do not take place, for a variety of reasons. What is the Justice Secretary doing to speed up the whole system?
