Secretive fast-track courts: vulnerable people ‘wrongly prosecuted’
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A major Evening Standard and ITV News investigation has found grieving families, pensioners with dementia, and even dead people have been wrongly prosecuted in Britain’s secretive fast-track courts,. The Standard’s courts correspondent Tristan Kirk discusses the latest evidence his ongoing investigation has uncovered, why this secretive process is still happening and the calls for reform. In part two, more on the proposed plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street as it’s emerged cyclists will be banned from riding through the West End's proposed traffic-free section - with Evening Standard transport editor Ross Lydall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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