Justice Stevens reads the fine print

Re:Justice Stevens reads the fine print by Retric on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @06:42AM (#30840907)

Courts don’t actually need to deal with vary many cases though. I suspect the average person needs to deal with the legal system for anything more complex than a speeding ticket less than once per decade.

And as it turns out five minutes in front of a judge can easily handle: “The speed camera is showing a picture of a pickup truck, I drive an SUV.”

It’s only a minute fraction of cases that take significant time to resolve. The UK has ~700 homicide victims per year and significantly fewer murder trials. Individual trials can be long and expensive without it actually adding up to a significant expense.

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Re:Justice Stevens reads the fine print by aardvark179 on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @07:27AM (#30841188)

So, looking at stats for England and Wales about 80% of homicide incidents result in one or more suspects being charged and a small number of those end up being acquitted (though it often takes some time for people to be charged). I guess that counts as significantly fewer, but wasn’t the impression I got from my initial reading of your post.

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Re:Justice Stevens reads the fine print by Retric on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @09:19AM (#30842172)

80% of incidents, but each incident can have multiple victims. 2020 for example had one unfortunate case of 39 people being found dead in a truck relating to human trafficking.

Anyway here’s Criminal court statistics up to 2019 that’s showing real downwards trends. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

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Re:Justice Stevens reads the fine print by pmyteh on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @07:54AM (#30841365)

Yes; there are also a significant number of guilty pleas. They obviously vastly reduce trial time, though not the cost of investigation etc.

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