There may be a breakthrough in clearing the huge backlog of possession cases as the government is allocating an extra £324m to courts over the next three years.
This is part of the £2.2 billion extra funding given to the Ministry of Justice, announced at last weeks’s Budget.
“The pandemic created unprecedented challenges but this settlement is the largest increase in more than a decade for the justice system” says Justice Secretary Dominic Raab.
“That means we can focus on building a better, more efficient, justice system for all.”
Around £200m of the £324m is to be spent on upgrading court technology in a bid to speed the hearing of cases.
A statement from the Ministry says: “The money will help accelerate the extensive work already underway to recover from the unprecedented impact of the pandemic, while delivering a more efficient and modern justice system.
“More than £1 billion has been allocated to boost capacity and accelerate post-pandemic recovery.”
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I'll run a housing court for free.
I can start tomorrow.
Only if you immediately force defaulters to pay up, and eveict them same day as the court.
And for sure no waiting times of more that a week for the whole process.
It's a deal!
Too true Robert. In my area bailiffs take months yet they charge £130 per eviction. The last time I spoke to a bailiff he had 10 evictions to do in a day and every tenant had left before the bailiff arrived. This amounts to £1300 a day. They say they are short of bailiffs. At £6500 a week must be advertised in the wrong place !
If that's not good enough then an online possession application cost £325. The hearing is allocated 10 minutes, most the time the tenant does not turn up so that equals £1950 per hour!
There is something drastically wrong with the system. How about privatising the courts? A couple of other suggestions, just as with employment tribunals the number of applications dropped by 90% when a charge was introduced. How about doing the same for defended possessions? In America in some states they run night courts and the hearing takes a week to be heard. In this country the aim is for six weeks.
Leave the government to run anything and then make a pigs ear of it .
Jim Haliburton
The HMO Daddy
The ' system' isn't designed for efficiency - its designed to pay the legal system a nice living. -
also, it saves [ via delays ] the Govt money in having to house all the crap that the court evict.
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