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| Britain considers speeding up terror trials: Report | | | London, Oct 7 Britain is considering radical reforms to hasten and streamline a backlog of rising terror trials, with increasingly complex cases and growing number of defendants.
Government lawyers have held talks with the country's Bar Council to discuss streamlining the trial process where the backlog of cases is expected to rise with police and intelligence services conducting over 70 anti-terrorist investigations, which they believe will lead to more arrests, a media report said today.
However, attempts to overhaul a trial process which deals with mostly Muslim defendants in terror cases could inflame tensions with the Muslim community, the Times newspaper reported today.
The daily said it "understood that the reforms would focus on the management and scheduling of trials." Citing recent lengthy trials, the government was becoming worried about a loss of public confidence in the criminal justice system, it said.
It quoted Prime Minister Tony Blair as saying there was a "worrying gap between what the decent majority expect of a criminal justice system and what they see it delivering." A record 90 terror suspects awaited trial in Britain, and number was expected to rise, the daily said. |
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