Reducing the rate of cracked trails at magistrates courts in England and Wales

减少英格兰和威尔士地方法院道路破裂的发生率

• 批准号: 2730393
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2730393
• 关键词: Reducing; rate; cracked; trails; magistrates

A trial cracks when it is cancelled on the day. Either the defendant changes their plea to 'guilty' and is duly convicted, or the Prosecution offer no evidence; the case then collapses and justice is not served. Cracked trials are the most prevalent form of failed trials. In 2020, 36 per cent of magistrates' courts trials cracked (Institute of Government, 2019). Cracked trials are a persistent problem, incurring significant costs to the public purse. Resources are wasted in preparing trials that do not go ahead, in addition to time lost by justices, prosecutors, solicitors, clerks and other court staff (Ashworth, 2010). A year of cracked cases was estimated to cost the Crown Prosecution Service alone, £21.5m in unused case preparation (NAO, 2016). Eighty per cent of cracked trials are due to a late guilty plea (Institute of Government, 2019). Victims and witnesses (from both sides), summonsed to testify have to be dismissed, often having endured months of stress leading up to the trial (Gormley, 2020, Cheng, 2018a). There is a paucity of in-depth research on the nature, causes and prevention of cracked trials and my research will fill this gap, identifying novel solutions. It will reduce unnecessary public costs and undue 'secondary' victimisation. Alongside qualitative interviews with magistrates, clerks, and solicitors, I will undertake novel analyses Ministry of Justice Data First data (MOJ, 2021). Overall, the value is to address an important cost to the criminal justice system and the public while being timely and innovative in its approach.

审判在当天被取消时就会破裂。要么被告将其抗辩改为“有罪”并被正式定罪，要么检方不提供证据;然后案件就崩溃了，正义得不到伸张。破裂试验是最常见的试验失败形式。2020年，36%的治安法庭审判破裂（政府研究所，2019年）。审判失败是一个长期存在的问题，给公共财政带来了巨大的成本。除了法官、检察官、律师、书记员和其他法院工作人员损失的时间外，为不进行的审判做准备也浪费了资源（Ashworth，2010年）。据估计，仅皇家检察署一年的破获案件就花费了2150万英镑用于未使用的案件准备（NAO，2016）。80%的破解审判是由于认罪晚（政府研究所，2019）。受害者和证人（来自双方），被迫作证，不得不被解雇，通常在审判前经历了数月的压力（Gormley，2020，Cheng，2018 a）。目前缺乏对破裂试验的性质、原因和预防的深入研究，我的研究将填补这一空白，确定新的解决方案。这将减少不必要的公共成本和不必要的“二次”干预。除了对地方法官、书记员和律师进行定性采访外，我还将对司法部数据第一数据（MOJ，2021）进行新的分析。总的来说，其价值在于解决刑事司法系统和公众的重大成本问题，同时采取及时和创新的方法。