The costs of the judicial system: how to duplicate it.
For the first time today I have been summoned to a pretrial hearing to inform the court if the accused agrees with the indictments of the prosecution and the prosecution. It’s an appearance that is always done in the field of juvenile court but I had not ever found in the ordinary criminal courts. The Judge in the citation indicates that the hearing is conducted “in the interests of good management of the Administration of Justice and manors causation of harm to the parties and witnesses.”
His Lordship’s intention is good, and may be useful in trials where there are cited many experts, witnesses, law enforcement officers….
But in the case involves doubling the cost. Firstly, because the trial had only to be the defendant and my client, the victim. So to cite the parties today, are the same as for any trial.
The defendant is admitted to the prison of Can Brians, so to bring it today to the City of Justice will have to release him, and bring it to allocate a budget to accompany him at all times. For our part the victim is also under police protection because the accused in their day and threatened to kill and attempted murder. For me, this appearance did not pay anyone, not provided in the proceedings which are paid by the duty counsel.
Therefore resources used in this hearing today are not few. Not to mention that further collapse is the agenda of the court and the victim resulting in secondary victimization that does not have to endure.
If non-conformity (which I doubt the beech), in a few months we will have to go back all the trial.
So if the cost of the hearing (except as it relates to my honoraries) is X, the final cost of the trial will be X x 2.
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