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Brilliant open letter by 4000 criminal barristers
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Brilliant open letter by 4000 criminal barristers 6 Years, 10 Months ago
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The Criminal Bar Association has written to all political parties saying the system is broken and so clogged up with sex cases that "criminal justice has degraded over 25 years" and there is a "tsunami of highly sensitive sex cases" about to destroy the criminal justice system.
I have news for them; it is already destroyed. Broken. Thousands of innocent men and women clogging up our prisons.
www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/justice-...-sex-cases-snmzjlbjq
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Last Edit: 2017/05/13 06:43 By JK2006.
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Re:Brilliant open letter by 4000 criminal barristers 6 Years, 10 Months ago
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This is the article
Leaders of 4,000 criminal barristers are warning of the ticking time bomb of sex offence cases clogging up the courts, in an open letter to political parties calling for investment in the justice system.
Leaders of the Criminal Bar Association say that without more investment by the next government, the system will be unable to deal with the deluge of sex cases that occupy 50 per cent of time in some courts.
They are issuing open letters to the main political parties saying that the rule of law depends on a properly funded court system, calling on the next administration to reverse legal aid cuts of more than 30 per cent since 2007, and invest in and recognise the importance of criminal justice.
In the past 25 years, they say, the system has been allowed to “degrade” as violent crime rises, and “the system is dealing with a tsunami of highly sensitive sex cases which are set to occupy it for years to come”.
Francis FitzGibbon, QC, chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, said: “The number of sexual abuse cases coming to the courts has been growing each year and yet this may only be the beginning. That has already placed a huge strain on public resources.
“But the bigger question is whether the criminal justice system — police, prosecutors, defence lawyers, courts, prison — can cope with more and more such cases at a time when people and resources are already stretched to their limits due to years of underfunding.
“The public’s rightful expectations will go unmet unless the system is assured of the capacity to deal with the demands placed upon it.” The association attacked judicial policy that “has been characterised for too long by hasty, ill-thought-out measures”.
It said: “Our work is in the public interest, as we help judges and juries reach the right outcomes so that the guilty are convicted and the innocent acquitted. Governments for at least 25 years have allowed criminal justice to degrade, from the police service through the publicly funded part of the legal profession, the courts, to the prisons and the probation service. It is not an optional extra but an essential element in a fair and tolerant society.”
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