Magistrates' Courts: Closures
(asked on 29th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of magistrates’ court closures on access to justice.
This question was answered on 7th February 2019
The decision to close a court is never taken lightly. In the case of each magistrates’ court closure, we undertook a public consultation exercise and considered the responses we received very carefully. The Lord Chancellor only agreed to close the court when satisfied that effective access to justice would be maintained when the court closed.