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Why does this issue matter? There are other unsuccessful applicants, such as Jade, who have lost their opportunity to see justice done because the CPS, out of time to discontinue proceedings, offered no evidence in their cases. In circumstances such as Jade’s, the VRR is, in effect, redundant because the decision cannot be put right even where there has been an error. In general, it is neither possible nor realistic to demand that decision-making is infallible, but this is particularly the case given the current, unfortunate state of the justice system and the pressures on agencies within it, which, I am afraid, probably mean some mistakes are inevitable.