Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 47357

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 and what proportion of trials overran in 2024.

Answer

Sarah Sackman

Official 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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