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Britain’s court backlog will “get worse before it gets better”, a minister has admitted, as the government seeks to ease the “dire” state of the criminal justice system.
David Lammy has pledged to fix the UK’s broken judicial system in an overhaul which will include digital modernisation, lifting a cap on court sitting days and the scrapping of jury trial cases that would have a jail sentence of three years or less.
The government hopes the reforms, which are expected to be implemente
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