First trial without jury approved
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8106590.stm
"The Court of Appeal has ruled that a criminal trial can take place at Crown Court without a jury for the first time in England and Wales."
The UK Legal system needs some serious reform. Its old, the methods are slow, outdated and more thought needs to be put into managing cases like this. Surely with modern technology, the jury could sit in complete anonimity in another part of the country, instead of the case being handled by one judge?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8106590.stm "The Court of Appeal has ruled that a criminal trial can take place at Crown Court without a jury for the first time in England and Wales."
The UK Legal system needs some serious reform. Its old, the methods are slow, outdated and more thought needs to be put into managing cases like this. Surely with modern technology, the jury could sit in complete anonimity in another part of the country, instead of the case being handled by one judge?
This is another step to supposedly prevent the innocent from being harmed. Within a few years there will be more and more trials without juries. At first there is a trickle of violent cases followed by a local minor criminal facing trial without a jury because his or her friends could tamper with the jury. This then opens the gate for more and more trials of this type until it is so commonplace that they are no longer reported.
Eventually ministers and judges can choose for a suspect to have a trial without jury in whatever circumstances suit them and the judge presiding over the case could easily be a government crony. In short the police state is almost entirely upon us. Any individual could be accused of anything and be convicted for it at the governments behest.
Unfortunately the people of Britain are to apathetical to actually do anything about it. Feed them Big Brother and mind rotting TV shows and drip feed them the carefully selected news of current events and they will sit fat, dumb and happy while their freedom is taken away from them one bit at a time.
The entire UK legal and justice system is broken, pointless and useless. The whole system, from the very first page onwards, might as well be ripped up and rewritten.
This is a sad day for democracy, a sad day for the British legal system and a sad day for the British people.
Eventually ministers and judges can choose for a suspect to have a trial without jury in whatever circumstances suit them and the judge presiding over the case could easily be a government crony. In short the police state is almost entirely upon us. Any individual could be accused of anything and be convicted for it at the governments behest.
Unfortunately the people of Britain are to apathetical to actually do anything about it. Feed them Big Brother and mind rotting TV shows and drip feed them the carefully selected news of current events and they will sit fat, dumb and happy while their freedom is taken away from them one bit at a time.
The entire UK legal and justice system is broken, pointless and useless. The whole system, from the very first page onwards, might as well be ripped up and rewritten.
This is a sad day for democracy, a sad day for the British legal system and a sad day for the British people.
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