Courts Minister Heidi Alexander has announced a major overhaul of the Single Justice Procedure, in a victory for The Standard’s investigation into the troubled fast-track court process. The Labour minister told Parliament on Tuesday she is hauling prosecuting bodies - including train operators, police forces, TV Licensing and the DVLA – in for meetings in the next few weeks for talks on new public interest checks on cases they bring to court. Ms Alexander has already ordered courts officials to redesign the Single Justice Procedure notice sent to defendants, to make it clearer for those charges with criminal offences. And she has promised to confront train operators over “poor practices” in the courts after a string of embarrassing scandals“I won’t hesitate to fundamentally reform this system if that is what it takes,” she pledged to Parliament.The announcement comes after an award-winning Standard investigation exposed the reality of cases passing through the Single Justice Procedure, a courts process mired in secrecy where defendants are convicted and sentenced behind-closed-doors.