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Minister warns it could take 300 years to bring courts backlog under control

The backlog of criminal court cases could take “nearly 300 years” to bring back to levels seen before the COVID pandemic without reforms to cut jury trials, a justice minister has said.



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Publish date : 2026-06-25 20:41:00

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