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UIN 98472
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9 December 2025
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Written Statement entitled Criminal Court Reform, published on 2 December 2025, HCWS1123, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of expanding judge-only trials to a wider class
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9 December 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Written Statement entitled Criminal Court Reform, published on 2 December 2025, HCWS1123, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of expanding judge-only trials to a wider class
Source: Commons
17 December 2025
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The Government inherited a justice system in crisis, with a record and rising open caseload of nearly 80,000 criminal cases waiting to be heard and too many victims waiting years for justice. One of the first priorities of this Government has been to tack...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-12-09/98472
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1862264
- uk · wq-1862264 · source updated 17 December 2025