Crown Court and Magistrates' Courts: Standards
Commons · Question 6650 · Tabled 3 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 19 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by James McMurdock
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of trends in trial effectiveness in a) magistrates’ courts and b) the Crown Court.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 19 Jun 2026
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on trial effectiveness in the Criminal Court Statistics release in the ‘Trial effectiveness at the criminal courts tool’. This tool contains data on both the magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court and covers the per...