18/12/2025 11:07
The Guardian
Incoming victims’ commissioner warns government’s various strategies lack cohesionJess Phillips’s statement to MPs about the VAWG strategy will start after noon, after the business statement is over. After that, there will be two more ministerial statements – from Luke Pollard, the armed forces minister, on Ukraine, and from Alison McGovern, the local government minister, on local government reorganisation.The crown court backlog in England and Wales has risen to nearly 80,000 cases in a new record high, PA Media reports. PA says:Data published this morning showed the open caseload was 79,619 at the end of September, up 2% from 78,096 at the end of June.It is also up 9% from the same point a year earlier, according to Ministry of Justice figures.This Government inherited a system on the brink of collapse.Victims’ lives are being put on hold as cases are kicked several years into the future. Continue reading...
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