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Ian Bond
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Ian Bond
@IanBondLegal
Barrister at @Cobden_House. UEFA C qualified coach.
Oldham, England Katılım Kasım 2015
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(If you drive a car) I'll tax the street
(If you try to sit) I'll tax your seat
(If you get too cold) I'll tax the heat
(If you take a walk) I'll tax your feet
Dan Tomlinson MP@Dan4Barnet
The Overnight Visitor Levy is a big moment in the history of devolution in England. Opponents would prefer we stuck in the past - with Mayors denied the choice to raise revenue to invest locally, supporting growth, tourism & raising the economic potential of their areas.
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Que sera sera,
Whatever will be will be,
We've made it to Wembley,
Que sera sera
#StockportCounty #VertuFinal
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Barristers, solicitors, retired judges, and other legal professionals - add your name to our open letter to the Prime Minister to oppose the government's plan to restrict jury trials.
Sign your name ➡️ bit.ly/4kMn9DX
The letter outlines our opposition to the plans and calls for greater investment and focus on the measures we know will make a difference now, including many of the ideas outlined in Part 2 of Sir Brian Leveson’s review.
The letter is supported by the Criminal Bar Association and all 6 circuit leaders.
Thank you for your support.
#JusticeNeedsJuries
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Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Avoid Britain returning to a “Victorian” justice system by taking us back to the early Middle Ages.
Pure genius. Trial by combat next.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Exclusive: Jury trials will be scrapped for thousands of cases a year including assaults, burglary, fraud and drug dealing in a bid to tackle the court backlog and avoid Britain returning to a “Victorian” justice system David Lammy, the justice secretary, told The Times that the scale of the backlog – which has reached nearly 80,000 cases – is failing victims as he warned that “justice delayed is justice denied” Lammy is expected to announce that he will scrap the right to trial by jury in “either way” cases, where defendants have the choice to have their cases heard in the magistrates’ or crown court. Last year there were an estimated 13,000 either way cases – including theft and handling stolen goods, burglary, assault causing actual bodily harm, fraud, dangerous driving and possession of drugs with intent to supply – went before juries. Under the government’s reforms their cases will instead be heard by a single judge. It goes further than recommendations earlier this year from Sir Brian Leveson, a former appeal judge, that they should be heard by a judge and two magistrates. However the justice secretary has abandoned more radical plans to go further by dropping jury trials in all cases bar murder, rape and manslaughter after a significant backlash by the legal profession The justice secretary raised concerns that some offenders are “playing the system” by asking for a trial by jury only to plead guilty “as late as possible”. Official figures show that defendants make late guilty pleas in a third of crown court cases, wasting time and resources and delaying justice for victims. He said: “I think if you are a victim of crime – let's say you're raped in London tonight and you are waiting until 2028 for your trial to come on – the system is not working for you. “I remember studying Bleak House for my A-levels, and the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case that went on and on and on. We cannot go back to a Victorian system in which all new people who are the victims of crime don't get justice.” Lammy said that the changes will represent the “biggest reforms for a generation” and said that it was ultimately about “saving the jury system” David Lammy: ‘I don’t want to scrap juries. This is about saving them’ thetimes.com/article/5d74c3…
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Trial by jury is a ‘sacred bulwark of the nation’, securing our liberty - Sir William Blackstone.
‘The foundation of our free constitution’ - Lord Camden.
‘The lamp that shows that freedom lives’ - Lord Devlin.
‘A safeguard against oppression and dictatorship’ - Lord Judge.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
EXCLUSIVE from Catherine Baski and Jonathan Ames Juries will decide only murder, rape or manslaughter cases under a shake-up of the legal system which could signal the beginning of the end for trial by jury Instead, the majority of cases will be heard by a judge alone David Lammy, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary, wrote to other ministers to say that there was 'no right' to jury trials in the UK & drastic action is needed to cut the backlog of cases in the crown courts in England and Wales Lammy’s decision goes well beyond the recommendations of Sir Brian Leveson, who was commissioned to review the criminal courts and reported in July However, there is mounting concern within government that the record backlog of cases in the crown courts, which is approaching 80,000, shows no sign of falling thetimes.com/uk/law/article…
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"Each hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely"
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"There are a good many people who say, “Never mind. Win or lose, sink or swim, better die than submit to tyranny-and such a tyranny.”
And I do not dissociate myself from them."
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I am willing to go to prison for refusing Digital ID
I will not comply
If enough join me, then they simply can't win.
I will not comply
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Looks like we are here again...
"If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes"
Andrew Neil@afneil
The Budget will hammer pensioners, landlords and small businesses mol.im/a/15126991
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