Sex crime cases warning as Scottish courts face years of chaos to catch up with 30,000 hearings backlog
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Law in Disorder: Sex crime cases worry as Scottish courts face years of chaos to catch up with 30,000 hearings backlog SCOTLAND S justice system risks damaging public confidence with a massive backlog of nearly 30,000 criminal cases - including delays in some sexual crime hearings - which will take several years to recover from. That is the stark view of the head of Scotland s criminal prosecution scrutiny watchdog which warns that the mountain of outstanding cases is continuing to grow during the Covid-19 crisis.