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This is an excellent thread by Joanna Hardy-Susskind It really sets out the issues that will be faced and why restricting jury trials is not a solution to the lack of Judges and Counsel to represent at trial. Please do read it through. The CBA

I’m not The Rest Is Politics, and I may be wildly wrong, but surely The Labour Party will win more if we appeal to Labour voters who have lost faith rather than trying to appease voters of other parties and not getting their votes. Go to basics and avoid attempts to pander. It doesn’t work.

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Next week we will be having a Sale to make way for some wonderful new resins. Stock is highly limited so if you see the Sale pen on our feed you will need to DM us VERY quickly for a good discount. When they are gone they are gone! Don’t lose out.

“For years, the sector has been propping itself up with dwindling resources, rising costs, & mounting vacancies. International recruitment was a lifeline. Taking it away with no warning, no funding & no alternative, is not just short-sighted – it’s cruel” homecareinsight.co.uk/government-clo…

Tomorrow we will hold the next evidence session in our inquiry into Rehabilitation and Resettlement: ending the cycle of reoffending. 🕜 2:30pm 🗓️ Tuesday 13th May 🟢 Watch on Parliament Live [1/2]

Witnesses from 2.30pm: Charlie Taylor - Chief Inspector of Prisons at HMI Prisons | Elisabeth Davies - National Chair at Independent Monitoring Boards | Adrian Usher - Prisons and Probation Ombudsman at Prisons and Probation Ombudsman [2/2]

Another beautiful day at the tap end of the criminal justice system. Plea hearing can’t go ahead because the court’s booked an Albanian interpreter rather than an Arabic interpreter… Judge: “Obviously the drop down box exercise went slightly wrong.” 😑

Court system in crisis as ‘jaw-dropping’ delays see first trials listed for 2029 “It cannot be right for victims of crime, eyewitnesses and those accused of crimes to have to wait until 2029 for their trial to take place” Mary Prior KC, Chair of the CBA. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

“Bearing in mind it generally takes two years for people to be charged with a criminal offence, that means six years from offence to trial. Is anyone really supposed to remember the details of what happened six years ago?” Mary Prior KC, Chair of the CBA independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

“How broken does this criminal justice System that we are propping up have to get before there is significant investment in the courts, court staff and in the criminal barristers who prosecute and defend in them?” Mary Prior KC, Chair of The CBA. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Offender spent 409 days waiting for monitoring tag to be fitted thetimes.com/article/a8c1fb…

Again, Tristan Kirk sets out the single justice procedure and why open justice is so important. Great to see this getting out there for all. Well done as always Private Eye Magazine

Independent Sentencing Review. “Plainly, significant investment will be necessary to implement change and that investment must include ensuring that the criminal barristers who prosecute and defend the trials and sentence hearings remain.” Mary Prior KC, Chair The CBA.

Former CBA Chair Francis FitzGibbon KC discussed on LBC News the space needed in and out of prison for rehabilitation, the “revolving door” impact of short prison sentences and how cuts to court capacity increase backlogs and delay, causing remand to rise. Independent

Spending Review 2025 Our Chair writes: The Crown Prosecution Service cannot prosecute the most serious criminal cases across England and Wales without criminal Barristers. We are pleased to note that the CPS has been given a significant amount of money. gov.uk/government/pub…

“If there is not immediate investment in the criminal Bar then, according to our 2025 survey, we will watch at least half of our profession walk away and those currently propping up the criminal justice system will be obliged to watch it collapse.”

End of right to jury for very serious offences? Most bailed, lots of remand cases wait over a year to get to court “expected to recommend that the public should be spared jury service if a case is going to last more than 12 months because of the “unfairness” of it taking a year”