Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 47355
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, what steps she is taking to reduce the frequency of ineffective trials that occur as a result of (a) witness and (b) defendant unavailability.
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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