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<p>It is standard practice not to comment on discussions between Ministers and the
judiciary.</p><p>The Lord Chancellor is supportive of any efforts to help ensure sufficient
capacity in the courts to hear bail applications and to remove principal structural
barriers to applications being submitted, and he welcomes the revised guidance launched
by Judicial Office which sets out that all second and subsequent bail applications
to the Crown Court should be heard remotely unless ordered otherwise by a judge.</p>
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