A new interactive map of national and regional data on access to justice has been launched by The Bar Council.
The new ‘Access to Justice dashboard’ includes information on active and closed courts, legal aid providers, and legal aid barristers and reveals a ‘postcode lottery’ of access to local justice across England and Wales.
The data published reveals that:
- 373 parliamentary constituencies don’t have a active local court and 200 parliamentary constituencies do
- Over the past 12 years there have been 239 court closures in England and Wales (43 per cent of all courts have now been closed)
- 155 local authority areas have no active local court and 178 local authorities do
- There are 16,892 barristers in England and Wales and 4,116 legal aid barristers
Mark Fenhalls QC, chair of the Bar Council, said: “Local courts matter and local justice matters. There is an increasing demand for access to local public services including access to justice. The closure of hundreds of courts over the last decade means that people must travel further and for longer, and waiting lists and backlogs have grown.
“We urgently need a political commitment to fund capacity across the justice system. Technology may be able to help on the fringes, but the Government urgently needs to appoint more judges in all jurisdictions, commit to a long-term rebuilding of crumbling court estate, and widen access to legal aid. If people cannot access justice quickly and efficiently, the public will lose confidence that the law will help them resolve family, property, and financial disputes.”
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