Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 29435

Courts: Costs

Tabled: 6 February 2025
Answered: 18 February 2025

Question

Helen Grant

ConservativeMaidstone and Malling

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Q3 of the oral evidence given by the Lady Chief Justice of England to the Justice Select Committee on 26 November 2024, HC 421, what estimate she has made of the total cost of sitting the extra

Answer

Sarah Sackman
113,000 sitting days are a theoretical maximum of judicial sitting days in the Crown Court. It is not clear whether other parts of the system – for example the availability of counsel - could sustain that level of sitting, and therefore it is not correct ...

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