Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) struggling to make ends meet.It is not just police headquarters, police stations and town halls: 80 courts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Bank closures have also been found to negatively affect those with disabilities, with a Which? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Deirdre Costigan (Lab - Ealing Southall) their pockets, where it really hurts.We also need sentencing guidelines to be reviewed so that the courts - Speech Link
2: Lauren Sullivan (Lab - Gravesham) The other issue is about justice in the courts system. - Speech Link
3: Josh Babarinde (LD - Eastbourne) More than that, last year only about 1,800 fines were issued by courts for fly-tipping incidents, with - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) To put the closures into perspective, if my local authority took the same action as the local authority - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) numbers in this area.I could see this coming during the passage of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Crawley (Lab - Life peer) The courts and the police must really start playing their part. - Speech Link
3: Lord Godson (Con - Life peer) towards theft, violence and abuse has had a substantial knock-on effect, leading to widespread shop closures - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) It remains a punishable offence under the Theft Act but a summary-only offence, triable at a magistrates - Speech Link
Found: Cases generally go to magistrates’ courts first, where over 90% of criminal cases are dealt with.
Sep. 06 2011
Source Page: United Nations convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment: 5th report by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 230 p.Found: There are also approximately 30,000 magistrates who sit in magistrates™ courts.
Found: , taking property out of use and impacting functionality of properties such as prison cells, law courts
Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) courts, and magistrates up and down our country are doing an excellent job at getting through those - Speech Link
2: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) The number of outstanding cases before Gwent magistrates courts has risen by 21% in the last year alone - Speech Link
Apr. 24 2025
Source Page: Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2024Found: ’ and Crown Courts.
Jan. 22 2025
Source Page: Transforming the criminal justice response to domestic abuseFound: at the Magistrates’ Courts.132 Court capacity is a major issue; between 2010 and 2020, over half of
Jan. 22 2025
Source Page: Transforming the criminal justice response to domestic abuseFound: at the Magistrates’ Courts.132 Court capacity is a major issue; between 2010 and 2020, over half