00:00We are bringing forward plans today to tackle the record delays that we've got in our backlogs.
00:05There are victims in this country reporting crimes, being told that their cases won't be heard until 2030.
00:1180,000 cases in the backlog behind each and every one of those, an individual victim, a defendant, all with
00:18their lives put on hold.
00:19So the government is acting, and it's acting in three ways.
00:22First, introducing record investment in our courts to allow them to sit as much as is needed,
00:26record investment in legal aid, modernisation, and critically the plans that are in today's bill,
00:32the Courts and Tribunals bill, which will save a lot of time, 20% of time, in the Crown Court
00:39so that we can have jury trials for the most serious cases, but crucially to deliver swifter justice for victims.
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