End of jury trials?

SPLINE · 3 Dec 2025

carmanmemoranda said:
Nothing to do with a massive backlog?

Inherited from.....?

VOTE LABOUR FOREVER!

carmanmemoranda · 3 Dec 2025

SPLINE said:
VOTE LABOUR FOREVER!

Why?

morqthana · 4 Dec 2025

motorbiking said:
If the issue was cost then why not a Jury of 6 or 5 or even 3.

And why does a jury trial take longer?

morqthana · 4 Dec 2025

Ivor Windybottom said:
I'd be willing to believe that the govt shills and supporters will be making propaganda calls to these phone-in programmes.

That's the problem - you're willing to believe anything your imagination conjures up in support of your mad ideological beliefs, no matter how blatantly it contradicts the truth.

morqthana · 4 Dec 2025

Brigadier said:
Lady on R5L yesterday said she'd been waiting for over four years, for her SA case to come to court.

But that's not because the trial will need a jury.

It's because the case will need a court building and staff.

It's because the case will need lawyers.

The case will need a judge.

Sir Brian Leveson, who conducted the independent review of the courts system that guided the government's decision to reduce jury trials says

"I don't see how you're going to bring down the backlog without more money, more sitting days, greater efficiency, and speedier trials...

"There aren't the judges, there aren't the court staff, more significantly there aren't the advocates."

Fixing that is the way to bring down the waiting lists, not hacking away at the right to a jury trial.

Brigadier · 4 Dec 2025

morqthana said:
But that's not because the trial will need a jury.

It's because the case will need a court building and staff.

It's because the case will need lawyers.

The case will need a judge.

Sir Brian Leveson, who conducted the independent review of the courts system that guided the government's decision to reduce jury trials says

"I don't see how you're going to bring down the backlog without more money, more sitting days, greater efficiency, and speedier trials...

"There aren't the judges, there aren't the court staff, more significantly there aren't the advocates."

Fixing that is the way to bring down the waiting lists, not hacking away at the right to a jury trial.

morqthana said:
But that's not because the trial will need a jury.

Taken in isolation no, but [the trial] does not exist in isolation, and each and every demand on the system as a whole affects all trials within it, to a greater or lesser degree.

Personally, I have no issue with the right to waive a jury trial, if all parties are in agreement with that course.

Notch7 · 4 Dec 2025

Ivor Windybottom said:
Erm. You're utterly wrong on every count.

you are one of those people that talks a lot but never listens.

Ivor Windybottom · 4 Dec 2025

Notch7 said:
you are one of those people that talks a lot but never listens.

Add something of intellectual value that's not just made-up and I'll comment on it.

Until then, I'll just say you're wrong, as many others here seem to suggest about much of what you post.

SPLINE · 4 Dec 2025

Notch7 said:
you are one of those people that talks a lot but never listens.

You are one of those people that talks a lot but never listens.

Notch7 · 4 Dec 2025

Ivor Windybottom said:
Add something of intellectual value

Notch7 · 4 Dec 2025

SPLINE said:
You are one of those people that talks a lot but never listens.

Ive listened enough to you screaming commie at everything

poor .

morqthana · 4 Dec 2025

Brigadier said:
Personally, I have no issue with the right to waive a jury trial, if all parties are in agreement with that course.

Right to waive is different from right being taken away.

motorbiking · Wednesday at 10:27 PM

securespark · Wednesday at 11:19 PM

Old lady vicar?

I've not seen that story.

Ivor Windybottom · Thursday at 1:24 PM

motorbiking said:

THAT is absoutely brilliant. Satire is more truthful and hard-hitting than reality. Every word is utterly true.

I'd challenge anyone to watch this and say honestly that all is well with Lammy and this dangerous government.

AI is the unexpected leveller, allowing ordinary people to make powerful videos like this. Not coincidentally, Yvette Cooper is now proposing a bill that appears to ban all satirical content, under the guise of "misinformation". They keep getting more evil every week.

End of jury trials?

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