Practice and Procedure

Flexible courts pilots fall flat

PUBLISHED November 26, 2013
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Ministry of Justice plans to introduce more flexible court sittings in the wake of the August 2011 riots have proved something of a damp squib, with half being abandoned, according to an independent evaluation commissioned by the ministry. 

The pilot flexible scheme at 42 magistrates' courts trialled extended weekday and Saturday sittings; Sunday sittings and extended video courts for six months from October 2012.

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