@glamvicar @criminographer Indeed. No guarantee in any job, unfortunately, and as you say it makes such a difference.
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@ElDutchio @criminographer I'm glad to hear there are kind and compassionate coroners. Unfortunately we had the exact opposite experience, which only added to our trauma. It's SUCH an important role. Sending you much love x
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I just wanted to say a little about the inquest opening. I was the only one there in the court. I couldn't bear not going; I have to see this through from start to finish. The coroner doing it was so unbelievably kind and proactive in making this less painful for me. (1/3)
Dr Emily Cooper@criminographer
Dear Isabelle, today I should be looking forward to picking you up later & having some garden time in the sun. Instead, I attended court where the coroner opened your inquest because of significant concerns with your care.I love you & wish you were here 💔 lancs.live/news/lancashir…
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@VictimsComm Although I am sympathetic to the delay, this proposed reform is unlikely to deliver the change you need.
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Victims are waiting years for their day in court - delays that deepen their trauma.
Giving evidence to MPs on the Courts Bill was vital to ensure victims’ voices were heard. I couldn’t have been prouder to stand with survivors whose evidence made such a powerful case for change.
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@DannyShawNews If the measures were likely to reduce the backlog in any meaningful way, there might be something in them. But they won't.
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Powerful call from victims & survivors urging MPs to support reform of jury trials.
They say, correctly, debate has been "dominated" by lawyers discussing "tradition, procedure & constitutional safeguards"...
...but "human impact of delay is absent from that conversation".
openjusticeforall.com/open-letter
@MYH_ldn @jadeblueLDN
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@charlottschreu Unfortunately a large number of sexual offences short of rape will fall into this scheme, which will not in fact save any significant time or allow rape cases (which are already prioritised within the crumbling system falling about our ears) to get on much if any earlier.
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@ElDutchio Lesser cases such as fraud that don’t involve someone’s body being abused and used.
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As a rape victim - this article misses the point. It *is* about serious offences because those lesser offenses will be moved to a mags court giving way to things like rape cases, thus reducing wait. This change amongst other changes will help all victims, including rape victims.
The Times and The Sunday Times@thetimes
David Lammy is using rape victims to get his way on juries #Echobox=1773555005" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/comment/column…
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@charlottschreu Yes and no.
Some cases will go to the Mags. Others will still be in the Crown Court but Judge alone. Judge is unlikely to be much faster than a Jury. The Judge and court room will be taken up on "lesser" cases but no faster.
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Rugby as a whole would benefit massively if people came out after this game and were honest about how utterly farcical that refereeing performance was and how much of an influence he had on the result.
He was the reason France won and there is no doubt about it.
#FRAVENG
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@MarkJames187611 @lukeakehurst @Labanb We do not tend to have jury trials for shoplifting. They are 99% dealt with in the Mags.
If you wish to end the loophole that permits this to (very rarely) happen, that is one thing. But sentences of up to 3 years will cover a huge gambit of serious offences - not shoplifting.
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@lukeakehurst @Labanb Do we need jury trials for shoplifting.?I don't think we do.
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@BarristerSecret @DavidLammy @sarahsackman Ironically, the first time alleged offender will receive lower quality justice than the old lag with loads of precons.
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@DavidLammy @sarahsackman David and Sarah want to give *you* - the wrongly accused - a lower quality of justice whenever you face up to *three years of your life* in prison.
And they don’t even have the decency to make their case on the evidence.
Just bluster, distraction and, I’m afraid to say, lies.
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Joanna is politer than I am going to be.
For the Justice Secretary - a former barrister - to suggest that being wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned for three years is just like “scraping your knee”, should be a resignation matter.
@DavidLammy owes the public an apology.
Joanna Hardy-Susskind@Joanna__Hardy
Your local friendly criminal barrister here! 👋 I need you to know that anything up to a three year prison sentence imposed without a jury trial is really not the same thing as scraping your knee without seeing a consultant.
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HP is not so good. Most conflict comes down to Harry hides and someone else takes care of it. He follows the cipher logic that is in most YA for girls. Magic doesn't have a cost. The 'rules of the world' are ripe for exploitation, but it isn't. Its low consequence wish fulfilment
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I was rereading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone the other day, and I have to say…
…how secure could the sorcerer’s stone have possibly been if the defenses were so easily overcome by a trio of 11-year-olds? 😑
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@christtocs @Joanna__Hardy 3% of the estimated total cases that occur. Many fall at the hurdle of not being reported, not being charged, not reaching trial due to witness attrition. Etc.
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David Lammy is doing a ‘true or false’ exercise with his court reforms.
We can all play that game.
Let’s start with this one: if you are falsely accused of sexual assault with a sentence threat of 18 months in prison, you will still have the safeguard of a jury?
FALSE.
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Ministry of Justice@MoJGovUK
It’s time to set the facts straight 👇 .
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@Venonat331 I did too. My Dugtrio took on all comers... until I met Lorelei of the Elite Four. Then I needed to take a lot of time to train all the Pokemon who were 20 levels below...
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I’m going to have to politely disagree…
I find it tedious training Pokémon one by one like this. I remembered when I was younger and I played these games, I’d always have one Pokémon that was like 20+ levels higher than the others. 😭
Raul Gr@BetterCallRaul
El aura absoluta de entrenar a tu equipo uno por uno en lugar de que todos suban de nivel solo por estar en el party 🔥 Nunca les perdonaré el exp share obligatorio.
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@alistrathern I hope you will be convinced in due course that the wider proposal to curb jury trials should not be supported however.
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Justice delayed is often justice denied, and sitting day caps were driving up court backlogs.
So this announcement is very welcome. Not least for victims of domestic and sexual abuse for whom long delays had too often seen trials collapsing.
More to do, but a big step forward.
David Lammy@DavidLammy
Victims deserve faster, fairer justice after years of decline under the Tories. Today I’m announcing there will be no cap on Crown Court sitting days next year. With record investment, courts will run at full capacity - meaning if a case can be heard, it will be.
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@Joanna__Hardy I mean - I don't think opening up bus lanes to prison vans is a bad thing. It's an easy thing to do and it might make a small difference at peak traffic times. Anything to get the van there quicker is a good thing. But plainly it is not the root issue here...
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This morning David Lammy told the House of Commons that in response to prison vans being inefficient that ‘opening bus lanes’ is ‘one of the things’ they are ‘looking at’.
And, honestly. I haven’t stopped laughing. I cannot stop laughing. I may never stop laughing again.
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@ZackPolanski Being lawfully held on remand pending trial is not being detained without trial.
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Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap the foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it.
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@GordonFbpe @robinbarfield78 Because the illustration was that Superman is great and all, but Jesus is greater than any super hero. It wouldn't work with Gabriel.
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@robinbarfield78 But why superman? Why not the Angel Gabriel? At least that would have some relation to the Nativity..
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I'm wondering whether critics of this speak to children as children?
See Calvin on accommodation: God lisps like a nursing mother to a baby.
Protestia@Protestia
Revd Charlie Skrine of All Souls Church Langham Place flies around as Superman, passing out candy and gifts to congregants during their Christmas service. Notably, this is the same church that John Stott used to lead.
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