jamesrossiter.bsky.social
Criminal justice, environment and circular economy expert. Sunrise chaser and storm swimmer. Personal comments
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We make it plain that further delay and prevarication will lead to a mass exodus of Counsel who will simply turn to more lucrative work. Our patience should not be viewed as anything other than short-term and it masks frustration and anger and successive Governmental failures to listen and to act
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The recommendation was not implemented. The backlog is now at over 74,000 cases. The remand population now consists of one in five prisoners.
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Let’s start by using the resources we have.
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We will do all that we can to work with them to achieve a “financially realistic and merit based increase.” If our efforts are met with prevarication and a lack of progress, we will ask you what our next steps should be.
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Especially for two men called Harold
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Some ideas that won’t harm justice
In house free coffee? Now chargeable…
Turn court heating off. In summer.
Turn down Petty France building thermostat. Ask civil servants to wear jumpers (jurors have to…)
Oh. Recover £1bn of criminal court fines owed. That’s 10%
And = annual criminal legal aid
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Yet we warned this all in March 2018 and every month since to date
I had just been explaining the chronic and worsening shortages of counsel to prosecute. Making returns - cover when someone cant take the case that day - almost impossible.
Goodwill is fine but even that can’t run on vapours.
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No rep is no justice
D had apparently failed to turn up today for a vital PTPH - plea and trial preparation hearing. Did D even know as D has fallen through the gaps having it seems sacked his first duty solicitor ages ago after his first arrest, probs by charge. No one knows. But delay we do know
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Our daily battles
New defence counsel assured by judge she will get legal aid for today’s case but on advice from chambers they all work out she can’t represent as she has no direct access provisions and D never had a legal aid solicitor so no one can instruct her however much a judge wants her on
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Hidden from view
A senior junior in the robing room whose jury is out on a rape trial, and prepping another sex case, accepts to prosecute provided she can hear if her jury comes back to her court room with a verdict - there is no one to alert her but she relies on court ushers’ endless goodwill
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It needn’t be so
An over-worked junior of 3 years call is prepping for a key conference due in 30 minutes, after chasing another trial this morning round the building hoping a courtroom could be found (“floater”) she had listed today, briefed on only last night.
She takes the bench warrant for D