HLS

Barrister

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

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[HLS @Legally_blond79]

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[HLS @Legally_blond79]

@juroberts_julia Dare I ask what judge?

[Julia Roberts @juroberts_julia]

Huge congratulations to Danny Moore on being appointed King's Counsel. Very well-deserved.
https://t.co/iLdc37SW4N

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

Anyone know of any PA roles or admins assistant roles in North Kent or thereabouts?

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

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[The CBA @TheCriminalBar]

“You said you were going to have to be running between two court rooms, how did that come about” asks @BBCr4today @jade_bogart of
RASSO criminal barrister Stacey Lee Holland of @2drjb “unfortunately it’s due to a lack of [criminal] barristers and there aren’t enough of us to cover the amount of work that’s coming in” listen to @DonnaLongcroft of @2drjb and Gregory Wedge of @187FleetStreet
Maidstone Crown Court a day in the life from 6am to court opening at 8am for criminal barristers to prepare dozens of cases many that have just arrived that morning to be prosecuted and defended that morning from 10am when jurors arrive. One trial date being offered is for 2026 for a 2020 alleged assault of an emergency worker.

The impact on defendants and complainants and victims of crime, and to have trials snatched a wave on the day that they were supposed to start removes “the light at the end of the tunnel”.

A murder trial is concluding, jurors retire to consider a rape and serious sexual assault trial, and an array of other cases with trial and sentencing dates set ranging from this year to 2025 and 2026 for offences ranging from assault of emergency worker, to downloading indecent images, to alleged theft and deception involving a woman victim of 85 with dementia and a defendant with over 25 previous convictions. He is on bail. The criminal barrister tasked with advocating prosecution for @CPSUK is seeing the case for the first time as he appears before the judge at 230pm - there had been a call out on tannoy to barristers’ robing room at 9am asking if any criminal barrister was free to take some prosecution instructions for hearings booked finally for today. But there was no one in the country left to cover them. No one was free. The Criminal barrister who took that case at 130pm did so as his hearing on a “backer” was able to be heard if he appeared on that earlier hearing where there was no prosecution counsel found.
Maidstone Crown Court judges are working round the clock with @TheCriminalBar to handle trials amid a case backlog of which by September 2023 had more than tripled in 5 years from 518 at end June 2018 to 1680 by September 2023, up 224%, while the National rate of increase was 100% over the same period. Maidstone doesn’t have sufficient judges so they all work overtime helped by recorders - part time judges drawn from @TheCriminalBar, and somehow manage to keep justice on track. They are exhausted.
But it doesn’t help when defendants are brought to court late - because prisons are overcrowded.

Facts
CBA analysis of official data shows as at 31/12/2023 across England and Wales
A 23 year high crown court case backlog
67,533
🆙105% from record low at 31/12/2018
32,936
And
🆙 8% on in 12 months on 31/12/2022 62,628
🆙 1% in 3 months from 30/9/2023
66,578
🆙 4% in 6 months from 30/6/2023
64,810
🆙 8.6% in 9 months on 31/3/2023 62,207

Includes

Rape case backlog also at record high 
At 31/12/23 up nearly 5 fold in 5 years
2,786

🆙up 385% (2,211 more) in 5 years from 31/12/2018:
575
(568 on 31/12/2019 (record low)
And
🆙36% in 1 year from 31/12/2022
🆙7% in 3 months 30/9/2023
2,604
🆙17% in 3 months on 30 June 2023 of
2,389

Rape backlog part of a record sexual offences backlog up over three fold in 5 years
on 31 December 2023 of 
10,141

🆙up 237% (7,136 more) in 5 yeass from 31/12/203
3,005
And
🆙 21% in 12 months on 31/12/2022 of
8,353
🆙 3.5% in 3 months on 30/9/2023
9,794
8.6% in 3 months on 30 June 2023 of
9,335

https://t.co/JA4ZIMAeLC

[Julia Roberts @juroberts_julia]

Due to pressure on the criminal justice system, a nine-hander people-smuggling trial at Canterbury due to last 6-8 weeks will now be split into two, with the first 4 Ds' trial given a 2wk slot, and no date for the remaining 5. The offence dates back to 2019 and two....1/2

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

@juroberts_julia @jshmellor Which of the court buildings are affected (in addition to Harrow!)

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

This promises to be an interesting event re non-traditional routes to the Bar.
https://t.co/ix9zAhzuk4

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

@Kent_Online Are they going to put in more machines? One machine at very busy stations and no ti key office causes carnage

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

This 👇🏻

[Max Hardy @MaxJLHardy]

Managing a criminal practice at the moment is like simultaneously playing Jenga with one hand, Tetris with the other while balancing on a wobble board as someone shoots Nerf gun pellets at you.

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

@SkyNews And what about parents under 25 who have a young baby!

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

@Primrose_Kitten I have and have no reply. Please look at your inbox for yesterday at 13.12

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

@Primrose_Kitten Could you please urgently contact me regarding an issue with my order.

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

@phatsilk_qc I’d definitely be interested.

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

@stevenelson77 @CathyMcCulloch Congratulations 🥳

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

Please share in the hope this reaches anyone who wants help. @BarristerSecret

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

As indicated in this post, James Harrison @6PumpCourt and I have created a guidance document to help with competency based questions. The document can be accessed below. Please feel free to share and good luck https://t.co/uilKj5bN0S

[HLS @Legally_blond79]

Congratulations. Such an achievement

[Six Pump Court @6PumpCourt]

Chambers congratulates Nina Ellin on her appointment as King’s Counsel https://t.co/0fixV9i56M