Trial by jury

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Rusty Nails

Country Member
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My mum has done it twice, both times lasted a couple of weeks IIRC. The only other person I know who was called up was my mate at Uni. He was a student from Ireland, I think he just said he was a student and they exempted him
 

Psamathe

Guru
The changes worry me mainly from the driving underlying reasons. I can appreciate that some trials might be better suited to judges or only need magistrates, etc. but the case for such changes would be driven by the nature of the cases.

What seems to be being proposed now is driven by chronic under-investment. Despite ongoing warnings, despite gradually worsening backlogs politicians have failed to bother to resolve or even mitigate a well identified problem so now, to address the dire situation changes being pushed on financial cost basis rather than serving better justice. Broad sweeping changes based on cost cutting without much consideration for the nature of the cases nor the resulting justice.
 
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