Automatically right to a jury trial could be removed for cases of fraud, and some sexual offenses under radical reforms considered to deal with Record the trailing court.
Proposals discovered by Sir Brian Leveson They are described as “the most appropriate transformation of criminal courts in the generation” as calls for an earthquake that would see some trial that the judge and two judges in the new division are court.
The draft 380 pages for reform, ordered by the Government, comes as a record 76,957 cases awaits to be heard on Crown Cours in England and Wales, with these trials What’s forward as 2029.
RECOMMENDATIONS SIR BRIANOVA, designed for savings 9,000 days of the Court of Daily Days, include:
- Removing the right to select the jury trial in cases where the maximum sentence is two years in prison
- Creating a new Division of the Crown Court (CCBD) in which judge and two judges can hear ‘any way’ criminal offenses without jury
- The accused were encouraged to recognize guilt at the earliest opportunity with the maximum penalty length reduction increased from 30 to 40 percent
- Serious complex cases of fraud that the judge heard themselves
- More cases are resolved by the court with increased use of caution
The Secretary of Justice Shaban Mahmood, who is thinking about his recommendations, said that he would do “everything that is needed to postpone backlog and delivering the overflows of justice for victims”.
The government is expected to respond entirely before deciding on changes in autumn.
Sir Brian, a former judge with a high court, said without action, we risk “overall systemic collapse” and its reforms are not small adjustment, but fundamental changes in order to adjust the system 21. century.
“It was well recognized that justice is delayed justice, but the records and growing trend of the court means victims, witnesses and the accused are waiting for months, sometimes in cases that came to trial,” he said.
“This situation is simply unacceptable. The recommendations I have presented the cohesive reform package designed to convert our courts into a system that provides appropriate and fair decision.
“It is also necessary to proportionate access to the trial processes with the maintenance of the basic right to a fair trial.”
Sir Brian said that the masters of the power of sentencing should remain limited to the current 12-month maximum.
However, he called the defendants of the accused of crimes with a maximum penalty of two years or fewer who were confiscated by the option of choosing a jury trial on the crown council. This could include people accused of breaking, who possess the prohibited images of children and the scam benefits, among other things.
Instead of creating a new system of intermediary courts, the creation of the new Department for the Krussonal Court bench to see that some crimes tried the judge, lined with two judges.
The assumption should be all cases with a maximum penalty of three years or less, they would hear “Divisions of the bench,” said, involving some sexual offenses such as sexual assault, grooming and incest.
He also said that the accused should have the opportunity to judge that the judge only tried if the court judge agrees.
This would automatically be the case for serious and complex trials for fraud, which may involve the level of legal complexity beyond understanding the general public.
He also called for the maximum reduction of the sentence length for the early plea to the guilt to be increased to 40 percent, in order to encourage the accused to admit guilty at the earliest opportunity.
The Association of Judges welcomed the proposals, saying that he would speed up justice for thousands of people.
The National Chair Mark Beattie said: “We invite the Government to spend Leveson’s recommendations as soon as possible. Every day they are not in place, the day when victims, witnesses and the accused have to wait for justice.”
However, the legal society warned that the government must not “cherry select” reforms from reconsideration as they called that the courts returned from the edge.
“The proposed new division of the Crown Court alone will not resolve the passage of the crown,” said President Richard Atkinson.
“The government would submit our historical system of jury without an effect.
“Only investing in the entire system has any chance of success – where prosecution is starting at the police station, and in all phases before the crown case.”
The Commissioner of the Victims of Baroness Newlove echoed calls for reforms to be financed properly.
“The victims need the judicial system that works – not in theory, but in practice,” she said.
“This review offers the best chance in the generation to repair it. The government must seize that opportunity without delay.”
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley agreed that there is a risk of “total collapse system” without radical steps in reverse years of declining.
He added: “It can’t be okay that in London is more than 100 years of trial for 2029. years. This is unbearable for victims and all parties to the right-in-to-end system in order to enclose from what often traumatic experiences, exacerbated persistent delays.
“I welcome this report and look forward to working with partners across the authorities to submit bold reforms that are now necessarily, not an option.”