Prosecutions: Maladministration

(asked on 13th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many errors have been made in cases determined under the single justice procedure in magistrates' courts in each of the last five years; and what errors these were.


Answered by
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Gareth Johnson
This question was answered on 20th October 2022

There is no definition of what constitutes an error in criminal proceedings and therefore no data is collected.

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