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Conclusion
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Accepted in Part
We recognise that for routine hearings there is a benefit of using video links from prison so a remanded defendant does not have to experience frequent disruption going to and from court. However, the convenience of video technology must not affect a defendant’s access to justice, and should not become …
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We recognise that for routine hearings there is a benefit of using video links from prison so a remanded defendant does not have to experience frequent disruption going to and from court. However, the convenience of video technology must not affect a defendant’s access to justice, and should not become a default position because of resource or capacity pressures. It is important that trials and other key hearings continue to be heard physically in court.
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Government response AI summary
The MoJ will consider what research might be undertaken to provide assurance that the use of remote technologies such as video links does not have any undue adverse impacts on remand hearings and on the rate of custodial remand.
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Recommendation
Seventh Report - The role of adult cus…
Accepted in Part
It is only on the basis of good quality data in respect of the use of custodial remand that there can be effective policy-making. More data needs to be collected and published on remanded defendants, particularly in relation to the reasons for refusing bail, the length of time people are …
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It is only on the basis of good quality data in respect of the use of custodial remand that there can be effective policy-making. More data needs to be collected and published on remanded defendants, particularly in relation to the reasons for refusing bail, the length of time people are spending on remand as well as demographic information, including vulnerabilities and protected characteristics amongst the remand population, to increase transparency and improve the information available to decision-makers. We recommend that the Ministry of Justice begins to collate, where it does not do so already, and publish data on the remanded population in a dedicated quarterly publication, as it does for the current Offender Management Statistics. We also welcome the current work being conducted by the Centre for Public Data on data gaps in the justice system. The issue of data is one that we routinely raise in our reports, and so we call on the Government to give urgent consideration to the Centre’s recommendations and conclusions when they are published later this year. (Paragraph 155) 48 The role of adult custodial remand in the criminal justice system
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Government response AI summary
The government partially accepts the recommendation, rejecting a new dedicated quarterly publication for remand data but committing to improving existing publications. They will add a new table on remand prison population by ethnicity to the Offender Management Statistics and will consider the Centre for Public …
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Ministry of Justice