Inside the UK’s ‘wild west’ court system where people may have to wait until 2028 for justice to take place
https://news.sky.com/story/inside-the-uks-wild-west-court-system-where-people-may-have-to-wait-until-2028-for-justice-to-take-place-13265902
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I guess that’s not surprising when successive governments allow the population to increase by nearly 20% over two decades, but they each fail to invest in efficiently growing our nations core public services and infrastructure at the same rate.
Got arrested based on a completely false allegation on Jan 2024, the case isn’t being sent off for review until Jan 2025.
Been on bail the whole year. I have no faith in any of the institutions involved to act accordingly, everyone at every stage has let me down.
The process itself has ruined my life.
The crime supposedly took place pre-Covid.
Edited for anonymity.
The only upside to this is that it’s significantly impacting landlords ability to evict people quickly.
As most local authority housing teams now require applicants to be evicted to be a priority, they advise people to stay in their rental often not paying rent, until the point of eviction. This can often mean 6 months, 12 months or more of no income for the parasite landlord.
Used to work with victim support- the frustration is palpable!
Yet if you go 60 in a bullshit 50 zone and contest the ticket that the lazy pigs didn’t send in time due to a back holiday, they have you in court within a few weeks
This brought to you by a decade of underfunding by the “party of law and order”
Also cuts in police numbers and insufficient prison places.
Notice how these stories are coming out now that the party that caused the issues isn’t in power?
Remember this. As they’ll have you believe things are terrible under Labour when they’re the ones who will have to fix it. The fix is to invest. They’ll start crying that we’re over spending during election times then break everything again.
No more Tories please.
Budget cuts budget cuts budget cuts. We were promised budget cuts by successive governments and budgets were cut. If we want a system that works we have to pay for it. The only way to pay for it is through improving taxation in a fair manner so that those who afford least pay least and those who can afford most pay most.
Warnings were given on a number of occasions and here is an example of one of those occasions: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35496012](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35496012)
STOP voting for tax cuts and budget cuts. The only people that gain from cuts in real terms are the wealthy.
I was nearly told I’d had to wait 2 years for a case involving grooming and abuse of several minors after the CPS agreed to carry it. Luckily a gap opened up and we were a priority case so got moved forward, but I can’t imagine the hell it would’ve been sitting in limbo for 2 years after dragging everything back up again. We really need to actually fund our courts, and my heart goes out to everyone waiting too long for justice.
Justice delayed is justice denied. Just see what happened in the US: Trump was able to exploit the slow legal system there to slow things down until he was able to be re-elected, which resulted in other institutional norms resulting in cases against him being dropped and punishments for crimes he was convicted of being indefinitely postponed.
He’s far from the only one. The slower the system gets, the more cases never see justice done.
Ok, but what’s to be done?
Judges are well paid, you can’t just throw money at the problem and increase the rate of trials. Nor can we “accelerate” trials because that means cutting corners which will lead to injustice.