County courts in crisis?
13 February 2007, 09:09 AM
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County courts in crisis?
BBC NEWS | UK | County courts system 'in chaos'
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'Systemic failures'
"We are operating on the margins of effectiveness, and with further cuts looming we run the risk of bringing about a real collapse in the service," he stressed.
Keith Vaz, the Labour MP for Leicester East, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the judge's complaints highlighted problems that merit "very, very close attention form the lord chancellor".
He said: "When people go to court they want a decision that is fair and if....the person administering the case says 'sorry, there are systemic failures which mean we are not able to deliver justice', you wonder why the system is there in the first place."
County courts are no longer subsidised by the taxpayer. Instead, they are expected to generate all their income from fees charged to court users.
This was intended to protect the courts from having to compete with other public services for government funds.
However, the courts' budgets are fixed by the government and although the courts more than covered their costs last year, the surplus raised from fees was spent on other services. "
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'Systemic failures'
"We are operating on the margins of effectiveness, and with further cuts looming we run the risk of bringing about a real collapse in the service," he stressed.
Keith Vaz, the Labour MP for Leicester East, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the judge's complaints highlighted problems that merit "very, very close attention form the lord chancellor".
He said: "When people go to court they want a decision that is fair and if....the person administering the case says 'sorry, there are systemic failures which mean we are not able to deliver justice', you wonder why the system is there in the first place."
County courts are no longer subsidised by the taxpayer. Instead, they are expected to generate all their income from fees charged to court users.
This was intended to protect the courts from having to compete with other public services for government funds.
However, the courts' budgets are fixed by the government and although the courts more than covered their costs last year, the surplus raised from fees was spent on other services. "
13 February 2007, 09:56 AM
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Yeah, another fine mess we are heading into...
....just what has this government actually done with all the extra tax they got. I just see so little of that money actually making it to ground level. All seems to be on red tape, management layers, PC correctness. All bs, we need the cash to the ppl on the ground.
....just what has this government actually done with all the extra tax they got. I just see so little of that money actually making it to ground level. All seems to be on red tape, management layers, PC correctness. All bs, we need the cash to the ppl on the ground.
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