Source · Select Committees · Justice Committee
Recommendation 42
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Reasoned judgments in the Crown Court will help to make criminal courts more transparent.
Conclusion
Reasoned judgments in the Crown Court will help to make criminal courts more transparent. We accept that in some cases the requirement will not be unduly onerous, but there are likely to be cases where the need to provide a judgment will be an additional burden for the judge that they would not have had if the case had been tried with a jury. It is surprising to us that the government has not sought to quantify how much additional judicial resource the requirement to produce a judgment will require. (Conclusion, Paragraph 151)