A good thing: the then justice secretary, #Lamny, sought to deprive Britons of an ancient right that had its roots in the Magna Carta. People would no longer be entitled to a trial by their peers in cases involving a likely sentence of less than three years. Instead, a lone judge would suffice. The collective wisdom of 12 independent minds is likely to be superior to that of a single individual. But this seemed to count for little. Nor did more than 800 years of precedent.
That egregious idea has now been removed as a motion in Parliament.
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#defendourjuries