questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of trends in trial effectiveness in a) magistrates’ courts and b) the Crown Court.
answerText: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on trial effectiveness in the Criminal Court Statistics release in the ‘Trial effectiveness at the criminal courts tool’. This tool contains data on both the magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court and covers the per...
heading: Crown Court and Magistrates' Courts: Standards