Non-custody cases are now being listed towards the end of 2022 in many parts of the country, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett has told barristers, in his speech to the Annual Bar and Young Bar Conference last week
This ‘is worrying’, he said, as the longer it takes for a case to come to trial the more likely it is that something will go wrong with it. On technology, Lord Burnett said the COVID emergency had led the courts to take ‘three steps forward’ but added, ‘we are likely to take one step back’.
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