Courts: Coronavirus
(asked on 30th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide a regional breakdown of (a) existing and (b) planned Nightingale Courts.
Nightingale courts are one of the ways in which we are ensuring we have additional capacity to alleviate the pressure on courts and tribunals resulting from the pandemic. The regional breakdown of the 16 operational Nightingale courts is as follows.
HMCTS region | Operational Nightingale courts |
London | Ministry of Justice - 102 Petty France, Prospero House |
Midlands | Former Telford County Court |
North East | Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, Middlesbrough Town Hall, York Hilton, Middlesbrough Jurys Inn |
North West | Chester Town Hall, Former Fleetwood Magistrates’ Court, Liverpool, St George’s Hall, Salford Lowry Theatre |
South East | East Pallant House, Knight’s Chamber, Peterborough Cathedral |
South West | Bristol Law Society, Winchester, The Guildhall |
Wales | Swansea Civic Centre |
We are considering a number of locations for future Nightingale courts, but no final decisions have been made.
HMCTS has published an update on their response to covid-19 in the criminal courts in England and Wales (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-and-tribunal-recovery-update-in-response-to-coronavirus). This provides a comprehensive update on our recovery plans.