I am grateful to the Minister. Does he think that he ought to consider the impact that would flow from removing local justice areas, when we already find that taking cases to the furthest point within a local justice area—because there is a particularly well-equipped courtroom there, say—means that magistrates are finding that most of the cases they will be asked to sit on are taking place 50 or 60 miles away? It is extremely difficult to recruit magistrates who are prepared to accept that distance, and it does not do much for local justice.
Judicial Review and Courts Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Beith
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 24 February 2022.
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and
Debate on bills on Judicial Review and Courts Bill.
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