People making out that magistrates’ courts are some newfangled thing invented by Labour. No one in the legal profession (least of all Starmer) would say magistrates courts are better than jury trials. They are however far quicker and cheaper to run. And given how stretched our budget is, a quick magistrates court session is far more practical than a forever delayed jury trial.
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It’s too bad Keir Starmer doesn’t have fixed beliefs and principles.
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The telegraph is almost as bad as the daily mail now, basically kier look at a court in the 1990. “Sir Keir and his colleagues concluded that scrapping juries meant it was “more difficult to raise a reasonable doubt” “
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Breaking: pig in spectacles discovers that removing juries leads to wrongful convictions. Truly ground-breaking stuff. Next he’ll tell us water is wet.
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People making out that magistrates’ courts are some newfangled thing invented by Labour. No one in the legal profession (least of all Starmer) would say magistrates courts are better than jury trials. They are however far quicker and cheaper to run. And given how stretched our budget is, a quick magistrates court session is far more practical than a forever delayed jury trial.
It’s too bad Keir Starmer doesn’t have fixed beliefs and principles.
The telegraph is almost as bad as the daily mail now, basically kier look at a court in the 1990. “Sir Keir and his colleagues concluded that scrapping juries meant it was “more difficult to raise a reasonable doubt” “
Breaking: pig in spectacles discovers that removing juries leads to wrongful convictions. Truly ground-breaking stuff. Next he’ll tell us water is wet.