Crown Court Ineffective Trials fall by a third
26 Jan 2005
Ineffective trials in the Crown Court have fallen by a third, according to statistics published today by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. An ineffective trial is when a hearing or trial is postponed on the day it was due to go ahead.
The figures, covering England and Wales, also show:
- 97,000 (nearly 10 percentage points) more offences have been brought to justice since March 2002;
- the payment rate of fines issued by criminal courts has increased by over 10 percentage points since June 2003;
- public confidence in the ability of the CJS to bring offenders to justice has jumped nearly 4 percentage points since March 2003; and
- the rate of ineffective trials in Magistrates' Courts has fallen by 5.5 percentage points since Sept 2002.
Between September 2001 and August 2002 there were 12,564 ineffective Crown Court trials. This has now fallen to 8,627 for the year ending September 2004 (down 31 percentage points).
Complete performance figures for each Local Criminal Justice Board can be found by visiting the relevant Local Criminal Justice Board website at www.lcjb.cjsonline.gov.uk