NIGHT FEVER

Regarding proposals for a 24-hour court system, the chairman of the Criminal Law Solicitors Association says can we really expect justice to be delivered...Regarding proposals for a 24-hour court system, the chairman of the Criminal Law Solicitors Association says can we really expect justice to be delivered properly this late at night? Its simply not fair to bring a youth into court at midnight.

(see [2001] Gazette, 22 February, 5).

Why not? That is likely the time the little darling committed the crime so a court hearing in the early hours should hold no terrors for him.

Geoff Atkinson, Group Lawyer, Monarch Airlines, Luton.