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The Crown Court is the criminal court of first instance in England and Wales responsible for hearing all indictable offences, some either way offences and appeals of the decisions of magistrates' courts. It is one of three Senior Courts of England and Wales. [1] The Crown Court sits in around 92 locations in England and Wales, divided into ...
There were 67,492 outstanding crown court cases as of March this year, compared to 60,191 in March last year, provisional MoJ figures published earlier this month suggested.
Ministry of Justice statistics have revealed there were 59,532 outstanding cases at crown courts by the end of the first quarter of 2021. Crown courts facing record backlog of cases with almost ...
Backlog has risen every single month this year – as waiting times soar for victims and defendants
The recording of sound or images in English courts had been banned since 1925. In 2013, it was relaxed and certain Court of Appeal cases were allowed to be recorded or filmed. Since 2018, some cases had been streamed online. [3] Several media organisations, including BBC News, ITN and Sky News had campaigned to have the law relaxed for over 20 ...
R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T. was a 2003 English Crown Court fraud case in which Major Charles Ingram, his wife Diana and college lecturer Tecwen Whittock were found guilty of procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception—obtaining a signed cheque for £1 million—by cheating on the filming of the UK game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
R v Peacock was an English Crown Court case that was a test of the Obscene Publications Act 1959. [1] In December 2009, the defendant, a male escort named Michael Peacock, had been charged by the Metropolitan Police for selling hardcore gay pornography that the police believed had the ability to "deprave or corrupt" the viewer, which was illegal under the Obscene Publications Act.
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