4 h. ago Government to recruit thousands of volunteer magistrates to tackle court backlog

The Ministry of Justice aims to enlist 2,000 volunteer magistrates in the next financial year

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31 h. ago National Trust bans volunteer who pointed out thousands of spelling mistakes on charity's website

Andy Jones, 71, had been volunteering with the Trust for well over a decade, across several areas including the Woolbeding Estate and the Devil's Punch Bowl in Surrey.(Pictured: Hilary McGrady)

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7 d. ago Revealed: The staggering backlog of criminal court cases in Greater Manchester

"Victims are being let down by the crisis in our courts"

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2 w. ago Crown court backlog jumps nine per cent in a year to new record of just under 80,000 cases

The Ministry of Justice said there were 79,619 cases waiting to be dealt with in the senior courts in England and Wales at the end of September.

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3 w. ago Asylum crisis deepens as court backlog more than doubles in a year to nearly 70,000 cases (and guess who's footing the bill!)

New data from the Ministry of Justice showed the backlog of asylum cases in the lower tribunal rocketed by 104 per cent to 69,670 by the end of September, up from 34,234 a year earlier.

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3 w. ago Voices: The court backlog crisis needs bold solutions to put victims first

The changes proposed by the justice secretary are a path to increasing victim confidence in the criminal justice system and to swifter justice, writes Labour MP and former crown prosecutor Linsey Farnsworth

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