A man wearing a blank expression was the first in the dock. He had sent intimate pictures of his genitals to a 13-year-old girl and was found in possession of almost 200 indecent images of children.

Across England and Wales, delays in the Crown Courts have become an endemic feature of the justice system. Criminal trials are scheduled years after alleged offences, with some in London now being ...

Cases disrupted as courts become ‘unusable’ in blistering heatwave - Some hearings are being moved to video calls ...

Crown court cases open for a year or more surpassed 22,000 for the first time according to latest MoJ figures.

Crown courts are at “breaking point” and there will be 100,000 outstanding criminal cases by 2028, a minister has warned, as the backlog reaches a new record high. Official figures published on ...

A BACKLOG of cases waiting to be heard at Worcester Crown Court has grown to almost 850, analysis shows. The court’s work ...

The government is piloting the use of artificial intelligence in the crown court, with a raft of new technology projects aiming to deliver improvements across the justice system and tackle the court ...

“Victims are waiting longer than ever” ...