The government’s rejection of MPs’ call for an “urgent and comprehensive” review of the county court risks perpetuating a “dysfunctional” system, the justice select committee has warned.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said that it instead wanted to get on with improving the system without further delay.

The cross-party committee today published the MoJ’s response to the report it issued in July on the work of the county court, which labelled it a “dysfunctional operation that has failed to adequately deliver civil justice across England and Wales”.

The report said it was “not tenable” to continue without fundamental reform and that there needed to be an “urgent and comprehensive, root-and-branch review” that would create a plan for reducing the “entrenched” and “systemic” delays and inef

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