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NLJ this week: The COVID blame game

14 October 2020
Issue: 7906 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , Criminal
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Backlogs, logjams, paralysis…the criminal justice system is ‘in critical condition’, Mike McConville and Luke Marsh write in this week’s NLJ

McConville, honorary professor at Nottingham School of Law, and Marsh, associate professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong and tenant at 25 Bedford Row, analyse the problem and its causes, extracting some devastating conclusions. These include the ‘element of tragic farce’ to HM Courts and Tribunals’ quest for additional buildings as courts after the government’s own policies depleted the court estate. 

The authors are currently undertaking a survey of lawyers’ experiences in criminal justice over the last few years. If you would be available for interview/discussion on an anonymous and confidential basis, in the first place please contact crimlawyer.survey@gmail.com.

Issue: 7906 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , Criminal
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