Today, the government has confirmed that it intends to remove the right to trial by jury in the vast majority of cases in the Crown Courts. Serious criminal allegations, carrying up to three years …
I do think though, that TSB faith in Judges, CPS lawyers, Barristers, to accept even miniscule changes to the current status quo is misplaced. They are very entrenched in their ways and resist change.
Part of me wonders whether the sledgehammer approach is intended to shake them out of their inertia so they might accept actual pragmatic changes to the system.
A good article as ever by the Secret Barrister.
I do think though, that TSB faith in Judges, CPS lawyers, Barristers, to accept even miniscule changes to the current status quo is misplaced. They are very entrenched in their ways and resist change.
Part of me wonders whether the sledgehammer approach is intended to shake them out of their inertia so they might accept actual pragmatic changes to the system.