Crown court cases are being delayed until 2023, the innocent penalised more than the guilty, and the under-funded, criminal justice system brought “on its knees”, according to the chair…
- Owen Bowcott
- The Guardian
James Mulholland QC told the Guardian that while Covid had intensified the crisis, deep cuts to the Ministry of Justice since 2010 had left it dangerously under-resourced.
The result was that “very vulnerable people who have to go through the system are being let down,” he said.
“You can’t have a…