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24-hour courts are risky, but right

4 August 2024

7:48 PM

4 August 2024

7:48 PM

Yesterday evening, the government instituted a little-known procedure called the Additional Courts Protocol. Set up following the 2011 London riots, this involves emergency ad hoc magistrates’ courts sitting 24 hours a day to deal swiftly with the troublemakers.

This was the right decision. But it still may come back to bite the people who made it.

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