By Press Association 2021 the Old Bailey in London Lawyers called for “adequate” coronavirus safety measures including “widespread testing” as they welcomed plans to open more Nightingale courts to help clear the rising backlog of criminal cases. The first “super courtroom” to hear gang trials and more temporary courtrooms in hotels, theatres and conference centres are due to open, the Government said. Manchester Crown Court will have a “super courtroom” to deal with cases involving several defendants on trial at the same time, such as gang murder trials. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) initially said 14 more venues were to be transformed into Nightingale courts, later clarifying that this would be 14 extra rooms in seven buildings in Aldersgate House in Barbican, London, the Manchester Hilton in Deansgate, and others in Birmingham, Croydon, Wolverhampton, Liverpool and Chichester – adding to more than 20 already open.