Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many video hearings were conducted by magistrates courts in each of the last three months.
The estimated number of video hearings conducted in the Magistrates’ Courts in the last three months is:
April 2020 | 5,298 |
May 2020 | 20,845 |
June 2020 (to 11th June 2020) | 9,114 |
This data is manually collated each day and reported by individual courts and must be considered in that light with all the inherent risks in relation to possible input errors and missed submissions.