How 3,000 trials have already been held in ‘secret’ under new fast-track money-saving scheme which ends centuries of open justice

‘Thousands of criminal court cases are being held behind closed doors under a new fast-track scheme that ends centuries of open justice.

For the first time, details of cases are not being read out in an open court, and there is no bench made up of magistrates, no lawyers, no defendant and no access for the press or public.

The introduction of the Single Justice Procedure (SJP) by the Ministry of Justice is the result of a little-noticed provision in a law passed earlier this year.

Under the SJP, a single lay judge reads the background papers and passes sentence while sitting in private with a legal adviser.’

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