Review calls for more remote hearings to save courts system from ‘collapse’

Report to tackle courts' backlog also recommends new criminal justice adviser to oversee courts, prisons and policing

A new post of prime minister's criminal justice adviser and the widespread use of remote hearings are among the recommendations of a government-commissioned independent review on tackling the courts' backlog in England and Wales.

The second part of Sir Brian Leveson's review - unlike the first part, which recommended slashing jury trials - focuses on efficiencies that can be achieved without legislation.