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17/05/2013
New Courts To Hear Minor Traffic Offences
Minor traffic offences will now be prosecuted in new dedicated traffic courts, following completion of pilot schemes in nine areas.
The new dedicated courts are being established to try and free up magistrates and cut delays in the criminal justice system.
Currently some 500,000 minor motoring offences going through British court each year.
According to the BBC a new traffic court will be opened in every police area by April 2014. These will have specialist prosecutors dealing with up to a 160 cases a day.
The new systems follows pilot schemes that ran in Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and West Yorkshire.
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The new dedicated courts are being established to try and free up magistrates and cut delays in the criminal justice system.
Currently some 500,000 minor motoring offences going through British court each year.
According to the BBC a new traffic court will be opened in every police area by April 2014. These will have specialist prosecutors dealing with up to a 160 cases a day.
The new systems follows pilot schemes that ran in Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and West Yorkshire.
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