Automating the criminal courts

But unlicensed fishers won’t be sentenced by algorithms

As the Evening Standard reports that more than 5,000 defendants were wrongly given criminal convictions because of an IT flaw which went unnoticed for six months, I bring you news of a plan to convict defendants in England and Wales without any human involvement at all.

Last week, I examined part 1 of the government’s Judicial Review and Courts Bill, whi…