The possible solutions are obvious, in my opinion, if not necessarily simple.

Improve the prison transport service, toughen up the system of penalties for late arrival

Hire more staff at courts

Make sure every court has an x-ray scanner at front door security

Ministers are now under pressure from campaigners to halt the warrants process until the system has been fixed

The Chief Magistrate is already investigating

Here's my original report from @thelondonstandard.bsky.social

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/magi...

SJP notices offer guilty/not guilty. No option to get in touch and question validity of the case. Many tick 'guilty' then put in the mitigation box info that calls whole case into question

Mags should be sending cases back when they see info like this, not accepting the guilty plea. That's a choice

True. It's a tough job
But imagine finding out the bathroom sink is leaking & doing nothing
Not stopping using it, not finding a temporary fix til you've time to do something permanent. Just doing nothing

When that kind of negligence goes on & on, it needs highlighting or nothing will ever happen

So that's a six-month failure to fix the system.
A system which is acknowledged to be broken, and in the meantime around 400,000 people have been prosecuted.

It was the Conservatives fault. They created the system, and then ignored the consequences when they were pointed out.

But now it is Labour responsibility.
There was a consultation that ended in May on possible changes, lots of ppl pointed out how it could be fixed, then nothing for 6 months