mark ryan
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Hello, there 👋 Have you heard David Lammy MP and Sarah Sackman MP talking about people stealing bottles of whisky and swiping mobile telephones as examples of people who should not get jury trials? Well. I’d like to tell you a story. 🪡 🧵









No. this small, vital tweak is one of many over years, to safeguard juries to where the public interest needs them. Defendants in small cases should not push into the jury queue, so rapes; murders; serious assault cases can't be heard for yrs, to the great harm of victims



Ahead of the Second Reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill, Post Office Horizon victim Jo Hamilton OBE has written to David Lammy expressing her opposition to the Government’s plans to curtail the right to trial by jury.

It’s a lengthy but this is magnificent from @Geoffrey_cox on the importance of jury trials. A true orator among giggling simpletons



There has been a lot of public debate about todays vote, I want to make clear that abstaining at Second Reading allowed many of us to make clear that we do not support the Bill as it stands, while ensuring it can proceed to the next stage where the real scrutiny happens. 1/3

Well, they did. @UKLabour MPs placed unthinking tribalism ahead of evidence and principle. They fell for the untruths and misdirections, the cynical emotive rhetoric and the lazy, cowardly refusal of the government to debate on the facts. We deserve better politicians.

The leader of all barristers across south-east England has said the deputy prime minister's plan to reduce jury trials risks "losing some legitimacy of our justice system". More here: bbc.in/40WJKEO





Govt source: “This shows the government has bags of fight. We were told repeatedly these changes would be defeated immediately or a u-turn was inevitable. A long way to go but an important defeat for the naysayers, doom-mongerers and trouble-makers.” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…



Well, they did. @UKLabour MPs placed unthinking tribalism ahead of evidence and principle. They fell for the untruths and misdirections, the cynical emotive rhetoric and the lazy, cowardly refusal of the government to debate on the facts. We deserve better politicians.


@Anna_Soubry This is going to be a weird week. I agree with Anna Soubry.







