Judge Canavan. “This is why the backlog cannot be dealt with,” she says. “I have set aside two and a half hours to deal with this sentencing this morning. Those two and a half hours are now wasted. Other cases I could have dealt with, I have not been able to put them on my list, because [the statement] I’ve been asking for since August has only been uploaded this morning. That’s a disgrace and the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] should be ashamed of itself.”
