Remote Hearings

(asked on 10th June 2020) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Shadow Home Secretary
This question was answered on 15th June 2020

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.

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