80 new rape courts

Easy to say when you're not in that situation, isn't it? But don't worry about trivialising other women's trauma at having to do just that.

He actually had rather a good track record as DPP on targeting violence against women, so I'm pretty happy that he has a good handle on the subject and how to achieve it.

If someone raped me, my priority would be to get them arrested and banged up. I don't give a fuck about the tiny possibility that they might claim to be trans, and if the rapist wants me to call them "she" frankly I don't care.

This seems like a headline grabbing policy with no actual explanation of how or why it would work to reduce VAWG. Pretty much like the “X new hospitals” or”Y more nurses” promises from the Tories.

Our infrastructure and workforce needs long term planning and investment. A party would get my vote with a policy that, for example, expands the number of places for U.K. students to study law and medicine and dentistry, along with grants and bursaries for those students with an expectation that they don’t have to be repaid providing that the student works in the NHS or criminal justice system for X number of years after qualifying.

You could use that policy for any key area with a shortage of qualified staff, but those professions seem to take longest to qualify and thus incur the biggest student debts. Or rely on the students coming from a wealthy family who can afford to subsidise the student. It doesn’t always mean the brightest/best students get through the system.

But they won’t got to prison if they don’t go to court! Plus there’s the ECSL (early release)

Last month, the National Audit Office said it no longer believed that the Ministry of Justice’s ambition to reduce the overall backlog of cases to 53,000 by March 2025 was achievable. Of the 67,573 cases awaiting trial, almost a fifth (18%) are sexual offences

Absolutely awful state of affairs. Plus overcrowding in prisons mean there’s nowhere to put the existing violent male (predominantly) offenders.

Ah ok I though you meant rape convictions

This is a rather depressing look at the statistics. THIS needs fixing before the cases ( if they do) get sped through

https://victimscommissioner.org.uk/news/the-distressing-truth-is-that-if-you-are-raped-in-britain-today-your-chances-of-seeing-justice-are-slim/

Mic drop.

What has a 96% success rate?

I’ve read the article and all it’s says really is more courts and tougher sentencing.

We know how incredibly difficult it is to meet the CPS threshold,( only 3% get prosecuted ) then the woman life is literally ransacked and she her self is put on trial, now we have judges ordering women to call their rapists ‘she’. And then only 60% get a guilty verdict. A tiny tiny number despite rape allegations shooting up.

So a lot of work is needed before they just start flying through back logged cases.

Well now seems like an excellent time to identify as a judge.

More weasel words from Labour. There has never been a shortage of court space.

Empty courtrooms across the land are echoing from the complete lack of staff, judges and wider infrastructure needed to administrate the case backlog already waiting. Starmer knows this perfectly well. And that’s before the woeful lack of rape cases even getting to the police and point of charging.

I very much look forward to being proved wrong and seeing the manifesto and budget to go along with the unbuttered parsnips we are being fed.

Yet they want to make getting a grc even easier, and refuse to countenance firming up the equality act to mean born sex.

In practice this will mean self id.

I don't know how much plainer we can make this for you.

If legal sex is a thing, then legal sex is what will matter when putting people in prison. And hospital wards and sports and counselling and toilets and .....

^100%

So Labour have specifically said they are not going to over promise, thats tough for people like me that want them to be more radical but perhaps its the best plan?

We've all had enough of liars.

Well, we either try and change it or we vote back in the Tories and they will let the justice system collapse even further.

Off tack but its the same with the 600,000 women awaiting gynae treatment, many on lists for 2 or 3 years.....

Do we just fold our arms and say "oh well, at least Sunak knows what a woman is" OR do we try and put things right???

I know which one i want.

This is my worry. Statistically it looks great on paper but realistically it’s not great for the women actually going through it

Well, if its true we need to train up barristers etc then that gives time to build prisons and rebuild the prison staff and probation services.

14 years of terrible investment cannot be put right even within one term.

Took Blair 8 years to make improvements (that the public noticed) to the NHS and he had a better economy to assist him in this.

We ve an independent justice system.

@CassieMaddox I totally get where you’re coming from but the sexual assault/rape courts are in such a bad mess we are worried that these courts IF they go ahead will still drag all the issues that blight them. Some of those issues are really important and needs urgently fixing.

it’s like promising to put more busses on to help people get to work but the buses are death traps. More busses are a great idea but they need fixing first