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Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing single justice procedure hearings to be observable by accredited journalists.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 23 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 25 Jul 2024
Answer: 31 Jul 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

23 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing single justice procedure hearings to be observable by accredited journalists.
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jul 2024
Answer published
Single Justice Procedure (SJP) cases are decided by a single magistrate, with support of a legal adviser, in private rather than in a hearing in open court. This means that cases can be dealt with by courts anywhere in the country and are therefore not sc...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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