Secret courts judging minor offences like TV license cases need major reform
Even when it gets things wrong — as it did horrendously with the sub-postmasters wrongfully convicted, or in the case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years inBut anyone who thinks that way perhaps hasn’t yet been caught out by the Single Justice Procedure — a system by which half a million minor criminal prosecutions are handled each year.makes a mockery of the scales of justice proudly displayed above the most famous criminal court in the land, the Old Bailey.
I was wrongly jailed for rape - I'll have to wait for years for paltry compensation, Andrew Malkinson says The Government loves to give us the impression that it is on the side of the poor and against abuse ofIt was an invention of the Cameron government, supposedly to free up court time for more serious cases.
The Government has also emboldened train companies to prosecute people caught travelling without a ticket, or with the wrong kind of ticket. In one case a woman found herself given a penalty fare for standing on a crowded train with one foot inside the first class compartment. The magistrates have also demanded that journalists be allowed to report from the courts, from which they are currently excluded.
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