Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jess Phillips has revealed she is a victim of the soaring crown courts backlog with a man accused of breaching a restraining order not due to face trial until 2028.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If justice delayed is justice denied, as Magna Carta itself suggests, then Britain is suffering not so much a crisis in its courts system as the deprivation of an essential human right.