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The Court Service is an executive agency of the Department for Constitutional Affairs and is responsible for the running of the courts system in England and Wales, including Crown Courts, County Courts, Appellate Courts, the High Court and tribunals. This annual report and accounts covers the period 2002-2003, and it details its activities over the past year, performance against key targets, its organisation and developmental objectives.
The Crown Court operates from around 500 court rooms at almost 100 locations around England and Wales. In 2007 it heard 135,000 criminal cases, including the most serious cases, up 5 per cent from 2005. Some Crown Court locations in London and parts of the South East are running at, or close to, full capacity, which can increase waiting times affecting victims, witnesses and other parties in a court case. At some locations HM Courts Service has used magistrates' court rooms to reduce the shortage of Crown Court rooms. It has also transferred blocks of cases between different locations. HM Courts Service is planning to spend �120 million to increase the number of Crown Court rooms by 30 (6 ...
The Court Service is an executive agency of the Department for Constitutional Affairs and is responsible for the running of the courts system in England and Wales, including Crown Courts, County Courts, Appellate Courts, the High Court and tribunals. This annual report and accounts covers the period 2003-04, and details the Service's activities over the past year, performance against key targets, its organisation and developmental objectives.
The Court Service is an executive agency of the Lord Chancellor's Department and is responsible for the running of the courts system in England and Wales, including Crown Courts, County Courts, Appellate Courts, the High Court and tribunals. This is the 7th annual report and accounts of the agency for the period 2001-2002, and it details the performance over the past year against key targets, its organisation and developmental objectives.
This report examines the purpose, structure and working of the criminal courts in the criminal justice system. In particular it considers: re-structuring and improving the composition of the criminal courts and the better matching of courts to cases; introducing a new structure for direction and better management of the criminal justice system; removing work from the criminal process that should not be there; improving preparation for trial and trial procedures and reform of the law of criminal evidence; simplification of the appellate structure. In proposing change attention is paid to the law of human rights and the potential of information technology to re-shape practices. However a central concern is the need to enhance public confidence in the whole system.
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The Court Service is responsible for the running of the courts system (Crown Courts, County Courts, Appellate Courts and the High Court) and tribunals in England and Wales. It also provides the necessary services to the judiciary and court users to ensure impartial and efficient operation. This is the sixth annual report of the agency, and it details the performance over the past year against key targets and developmental objectives. The report also includes the agency's accounts for 2000-01. The report notes: the progress made towards reducing the time taken from arrest to sentence of persistent young offenders; the innovative working practices used to successfully manage the large increase in asylum appeals; and the need to improve IT systems in order to create a modern service infrastructure.