Imagine the meltdown if the health service lost a third of its budget and a third of its frontline doctors, or if a third of our teachers suddenly disappeared. Yet this is the scale of the horror visited by austerity upon the Crown Prosecution Service.Along with bone-sawing cuts to legal aid, an unconscionable cull of prosecutors, without whom it is impossible to deliver justice, has left us with a system that is demoralised, denuded and chronically malnourished.For full article https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/criminal-justice-system-is-demoralised-denuded-and-chronically-malnourished-55pngsxkt
Wednesday, 16 October 2019 09:45
Money isn't everything
Money isn’t everything and the failed cases reported in today’s Times will include a number of unforced errors by prosecutors (and, incidentally, by the police).But in the end public services are like everything else: you get what you pay for.
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