There are empty courtrooms everywhere and a new thing I have seen in recent weeks is that judges are doubling up in one courtroom when (multiple) others remain unused,  no doubt because to use them would mean that the average sitting time per courtroom sitting day would be adversely affected or perhaps, less cynically, simply because there is insufficient court staff to cover more courts.  This is leading to Crown Court trials being interrupted so that a different judge can use the same space and causing yet more delays.  To be clear, this is more than the more-ordinary situation where one judge's trial just overruns with a jury in retirement and there is no other court available so there is no choice but to share a courtroom.

Have other members experienced this?

Brian

From: members@mail.lccsa.org.uk <members@mail.lccsa.org.uk> on behalf of Stephen Tosswill <tosswillstephen@gmail.com>
Sent: 03 March 2020 22:50
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Subject: Good news for defendants

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