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If a defendant is on remand the prisons prefer to keep them all together in one area. If they get taken to court for a case management hearing (which can include a review of the refusal to allow bail) their cell effectively becomes vacant and can be given to another remand prisoner. There's a...

If such a system could be made to work then I'm all for it, I just have doubts as to the practicalities.

I make no secret of my left-wing views but this has nothing to do with them, this is about my experience as a court user having sat on dozens of trials and having sentenced people to imprisonment myself. There's no end of stuff to beat the Tories with. This is an unworkable, populist idea...

I;d be interested to know how he proposes to use the skills and training to make someone in the dock stand quietly and listen to the judge; if the defendant starts shouting over the judge and they aren't allowed to remove him/her what will they do ? Batter them into silence ?

There's an old adage that says "Hard cases make bad law". This announcement is driven by a couple of recent abhorrent crimes where the defendant refused to attend sentencing. They are particularly "hard" cases. Unfortunately these in these cases the defendant was facing a whole life tariff so...