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23 days ago
Minister pledges to cut courts backlog as funding agreed to recruit new magistrates
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. Yorkshire Post is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 24 Sept 2026, 18:15 UTC. The headline in use is “Minister pledges to cut courts backlog as funding agreed to recruit new magistrates”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Weighty delays in the crown court process are a “top focus” for the new Lord Chancellor, he insists, as it emerges a record number of victims are waiting more than a year for their case to be heard.
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Minister pledges to cut courts backlog as funding agreed to recruit new magistrates
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