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Speaker 1: In the Brady UK correspondence with us Hello, Inda.

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Speaker 2: Hello Heather, how are you right?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. So it's going to be

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Speaker 1: more judges for you with juries.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So big big changes today to the criminal justice system.

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Speaker 2: Basically we've got a backlog of about eighty thousand cases.

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Speaker 2: That is how bad the criminal justice system is creaking along.

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Speaker 2: I've spent three decades going to court cases all over

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Speaker 2: the UK and it never has ceased to stagger me

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Speaker 2: the inefficiency, the delays, just how slow everything is. And

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Speaker 2: I think the government have reached a point now that

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Speaker 2: they've realized if they don't do something about this, that

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Speaker 2: backlog will hit one hundred thousand cases by the end

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Speaker 2: of the decade. So David Lammy is the Justice Secretary.

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Speaker 2: He is a lawyer by profession, Deputy Prime Minister as well,

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Speaker 2: and he will set out the plans for change today

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Speaker 2: and basically they're going to get rid of jurry trials

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Speaker 2: in as many cases as they can. So if you're

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Speaker 2: charged with murder or ray or a very very serious crime,

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Speaker 2: you will absolutely go to a jury trial. But for

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Speaker 2: someone caught shoplifting or stealing a phone in the street,

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Speaker 2: they're trying to just basically have them put in front

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Speaker 2: of a magistrate or a judge and dealt with as

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Speaker 2: quickly as possible.

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Speaker 1: Yes, in how many cases for those lower leveled crimes

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Speaker 1: are they actually opting for juries?

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Speaker 2: Well, what we get is a lot of repeat offenders

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Speaker 2: who are very well advised by solicitors and lawyers who

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Speaker 2: will teach them how to play the system. And you're

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Speaker 2: seeing people who will be cut red handed overwhelming evidence

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Speaker 2: and they will delay and delay, they'll plead not guilty,

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Speaker 2: and then the morning of a trial they'll plead guilty.

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Speaker 2: So what they're trying to do is basically get those

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Speaker 2: kind of low level offenders pushed through with just a

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Speaker 2: judge or a judge, helped by a couple of magistrates,

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Speaker 2: you know, just speeding up the whole process. But you're right,

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Speaker 2: there is we get, I think what they would call

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Speaker 2: a lot of repeat customers in the criminal just system.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I see what's going on here. Okay, Now, the

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Speaker 1: junior doctors, they's called a strike just before Christmas? Have they?

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Speaker 2: Yes? And the government, the Health Secretary Wes Streeting, keep

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Speaker 2: an eye on that name. In twenty twenty six because

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Speaker 2: he wants to be Prime Minister. The Health Secretary has

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Speaker 2: described these junior doctors as playing the Grinch. So a

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Speaker 2: five day strike called for December seventeenth. They will walk out,

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Speaker 2: every single junior doctor in England and Wales. They will

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Speaker 2: walk out on the seventeenth and they will not return

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Speaker 2: to working until seven am on the twenty second of December.

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Speaker 2: And the health system is creaking right now. We've had

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Speaker 2: a really bad strain of flu the last few weeks,

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Speaker 2: a lot of respiratory illness this time of the year.

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Speaker 2: Junior doctors, there's no sympathy for them this time around.

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Speaker 2: They got a monster pay rise August last year after

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Speaker 2: labor came in and everyone said to Keir Starmer, right,

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Speaker 2: you've given into them too soon. They will come back

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Speaker 2: for more, and sure enough that's what's happened.

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Speaker 1: Ye Hey, how in teens do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: The security is.

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Speaker 1: Going to be in Germany at these Chris markets, so.

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Speaker 2: They've started preparations for them, and obviously it's a huge

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Speaker 2: highlight in Europe the Christmas market tradition. Everyone would love

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Speaker 2: to go to Germany and have some of their beautiful

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Speaker 2: glue vine and some of their curry vorse sausages, and

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Speaker 2: do some Christmas shopping in the cold and the lights,

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Speaker 2: and it's stunning. However, we've seen repeated attacks in recent years.

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Speaker 2: Town of Magdeburg last year a guy got into a

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Speaker 2: very high speed BMW. The attack lasted one minute and

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Speaker 2: in that time he killed six people and injured over

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Speaker 2: three hundred. So what they're doing this week in a

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Speaker 2: lot of German towns and cities putting in extra ballards,

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Speaker 2: street furniture, more concrete barriers, basically fort knoxing up Christmas

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Speaker 2: markets around Germany. It's desperately sad that it's come to this,

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Speaker 2: but I think they're taking every precaution possible because you

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Speaker 2: just don't know where the next lunatic is going to strike.

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Speaker 1: Ye, it's fair enough. Hi, thank you very much. INDO

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Speaker 1: As always into Radio UK Correspondence.

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