Online webinar: 'Criminal Justice in a Pandemic: The courts'

In these two public webinars we will explore the enormous additional pressures that the pandemic has imposed on the criminal justice system.

In the first event, our focus is the courts and we will explore the reality of daily life in magistrates’ courts and in the Crown Court, from bail applications to sentencing. What has happened to the right to trial by jury? What will be the impact of the pandemic on the rights of defendants and victims, both in the short and the long term? What are the lessons to be learnt from video-justice? Could HMCTS and the judiciary have been better prepared?

To discuss the issues:

Chair: Nicky Padfield, Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice

Nicky will be joined a panel of experts to include:

• Amanda Pinto Q.C. (Chair of The Bar Council);
• Simon Davis (President of The Law Society);
• Ian Kelcey (Criminal Solicitor Advocate); and
• Abimbola Johnson (Criminal Barrister).

Online registration is now available:

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In our second webinar on 4 June, we will be looking at the current conditions in English prisons and will ask why more has not been done to care for those in custody.