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Incident: 2018
Trial: 2022
We always say the criminal justice system is about to collapse but I think this is it. I think we’re in the smouldering wreckage pretending this is what justice looks like.
It’s fixable. It needs money, buildings, extra staff and for someone to care.
Trial: 2022
We always say the criminal justice system is about to collapse but I think this is it. I think we’re in the smouldering wreckage pretending this is what justice looks like.
It’s fixable. It needs money, buildings, extra staff and for someone to care.
The experiment of ‘extended hours’ and a handful of criminal Nightingale Courts are not even going to chip the top off the mountain of trials that are waiting in the wings.
The plan should be radical and creative and it should have started months ago.
The plan should be radical and creative and it should have started months ago.
And if - with refreshed and newly packaged ‘urgency’ - the government plucks from the ashes the notion of restricting jury trials for certain offences when parliament resumes then precisely no one should accept that that urgency couldn’t have been mitigated.
I don’t accept that with the resources of the state behind you that it’s too hard to locate some leisure centres or public buildings for safe, distanced jury trials. It’s not that hard. It’s certainly not impossible. WiFi. Security. Chairs. Staff.
You are the *government*.
You are the *government*.
But instead, we wait. Complainants of crime wait. Witnesses wait. Defendants wait. Families on both sides, they wait.
Lives on hold. For years.
You think it won’t happen to you but - take it from me - everyone thinks that until, one day, it might be.
And then you’ll wait, too.
Lives on hold. For years.
You think it won’t happen to you but - take it from me - everyone thinks that until, one day, it might be.
And then you’ll wait, too.
