BBC: Magistrates’ Association criticises SJP’s TV licence prosecutions

The secretive single justice procedures (SJPs), has been criticised by the Magistrates’ Association who say defendants ‘deserve fair and transparent justice’.

Sky News speaks to ‘Claire’ who was prosecuted for not paying her TV licence on the identical time she was battling to efficiently achieve a lifetime restraining order in opposition to her abusive accomplice.

The disabled single mom of two says the courts didn’t take her state of affairs into consideration and was terrified of being despatched to jail.

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