Single Justice Procedure: joint ITV-Standard investigation reveals shocking extent of harm

Evening Standard 2024-09-18

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Grieving families, pensioners with dementia, and even dead people have been wrongly prosecuted in Britain’s secretive fast-track courts, a major Evening Standard/ITV News investigation has found.Exclusive analysis by a panel of barristers of a sample of prosecutions in the controversial Single Justice Procedure (SJP) concluded three quarters of cases should never have gone through the court. These included cases brought against sick and vulnerable defendants.

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