Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 47354
Trials: Standards
Tabled: 23 April 2025
Answered: 1 May 2025
Question
Dr Kieran Mullan
Conservative — Bexhill and Battle
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trials were deemed ineffective because of (a) witness and (b) defendant unavailability in 2024.
Answer
Sarah SackmanOfficial Statistics (Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly) show that in 2024, of the 31,158 trials in the Crown Courts, 665 trials were ineffective due to witness unavailability and 1,637 trials were ineffective due to defendant unavailability. These figur...
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