This was the title given to the summary of the Report of the Royal
Commission on Criminal Procedure published earlier this year.
Lord Salmon, a judge for more than 20 years, including service as a Lord Justice of Appeal. and as a law lord until his recent retirement, gives his views on the findings of the Royal Commission.
The chief blot on criminal procedure today is the immensity of unnecessary delays ... I regret that 1 have found nothing in the Commission's Report
Which has attempted to deal with these delays.