UK Justice Secretary Alex Chalk announced Wednesday that the UK will enact new legal guidelines to drive criminals to attend their sentencings in court docket, with offenders probably being topic to longer sentences.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak commented saying “Criminals shouldn’t be allowed to take the coward’s method out by refusing to face their victims in court docket.”
It can nonetheless be as much as the discretion of the judiciary to determine whether or not it’s “within the pursuits of justice to order an offender to attend court docket and for jail employees and custody officers to determine whether or not using drive is cheap and proportionate in every case.”
This comes amidst UK courts going through file delays in instances being heard, with UK Criminal Bar Association Chair Kirsty Brimelow KC saying the brand new measures are “excessive threat, when you begin taking place that street it’s rising threat for many who are dealing with the prisoner and you might be rising the danger of disrupting the entire continuing in any occasion which could trigger extra misery for households.”
The backlog is presently estimated at 64,000 cases.
