United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 47357
Trials: Standards
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23 April 2025
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of trials overran in 2024.
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23 April 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of trials overran in 2024.
Source: Commons
1 May 2025
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Official Statistics (Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly) show that in 2024, of the 31,158 trials in the Crown Courts, 665 trials were ineffective due to witness unavailability and 1,637 trials were ineffective due to defendant unavailability. These figur...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-04-23/47357
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1796197
- uk · wq-1796197 · source updated 1 May 2025