Smith: 'We've lost sight of victims' in judicial system

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Government minister Baroness Jacqui Smith says that "we've lost sight of victims" in the current judicial system and that reforms are needed to "enable people to get justice more quickly". Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00What David Lammy was talking about was the way in which the criminal justice system is currently

00:04letting down victims. The idea that you would have to wait after a horrible attack, sexual or

00:11otherwise, sometimes for years to be able to bring your case to court, is just wholly wrong.

00:19We've lost sight of the victims in this and what David Lammy is trying to do through the reforms

00:25that he's proposing, along with the additional investment that's going on into the court

00:29system, is to enable people to get justice more quickly, particularly victims, but defendants

00:35as well who are waiting years in order to have their cases decided.

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