Thursday 8 March 2007

Skipping Court

Hazard a guess at how many people decide that they can not be bothered to turn up to their court hearing each year? Im talking about Magistrates Court here, who deal with about 2 million cases each year.

Is it 10,000 people who dont turn up?
Is it 20,000 people?

It is infact, 150,000 people!

Lets look at the costs of this:

  • Court staff (ushers, clerks) who are being paid to do, well, not the case
  • Witnesses - they will have wasted time, at expense of the court system (expenses) to turn up for the case
  • Police - endless hours are put into the case files, not forgetting that they may have to turn up to court
One possible solution is to have "bail bonds". If your an offender and you want bail, then you have to pay. Just like occurs into the US, we can have bail bondsman (who will be called bonds persons - we dont want to cause problems with sexual discrimination etc).
If this happens, and you miss a case, then you will get to meet this lovely chappy.

17 comments:

Howard Wilson said...

I was a Police Witness at a trial in June and I didn't bother appearing as the dibble started hassling me in mid-May. I doubt that I will ever be making a witness statement to the Police again in fact!

Anonymous said...

I'm sure everyone wants to meet this lovely chappy! haha i would like to meet duane dog.
Anyway, the system needs to be improved and the law needs to be changed. Innocent or not, people who are ordered to show up in court means they are showing up for one reason or the other.
The criminal justice system is going down hill. People aren't scared of the law anymore.

What do you think, do you thinkk that the law needs to be changed?

-Jamilla

Ladyhihi said...

I was a Police Witness at a trial in June and I didn't bother appearing as the dibble started hassling me in mid-May. I doubt that I will ever be making a witness statement to the Police again in fact!

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