Judge blasts MoJ’s ‘systemic failure’ over Crown court backlog
By Catherine Baksi >> (9 September 2020) Crown court judge has accused the government of ‘systemic failure’ for not conducting trials in a reasonable time. Judge Keith Raynor, at Woolwich Crown Court, refused to further extend the custody time limit for a teenager who had been held in prison waiting for his trial for 321 days. […]
