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- Juries are involved in only one per cent of criminal cases. Therefore, they should be removed. The abolishment of the jury would reduce costs and accelerate trials. If magistrates would have complete powers in criminal cases, the trust of the public in the achievement of a competent result would improve.
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Jun 30, 2020 · Is the threat to remove juries a danger to citizens' rights? In response to the recent suggestions of trial juries being removed in favour of lay magistrates, Kent Law School's Darren Weir said: ‘The right to trial by jury is once again under threat.
Apr 5, 2000 · If home secretary Jack Straw gets his way, he argues, defendants will still have their jury trial, 'albeit a small jury of three magistrates'.But many would argue that it is hardly a jury that...
There could be some cases where a trial in front of a professional judge would be preferable to one in front of lay magistrates alone, but where the wait for a jury trial is not what the defendant or witnesses want.
Many of the interviewees pointed out that the lay magistracy makes decisions in groups of three, whereas District Judges, who also sit in magistrates’ courts, make decisions alone: “its’s so important that three people sit on a trial…that there’s a bench of three – and you’re from different backgrounds, different experiences and ...
This article argues that while these proposals embody necessary and important areas for reform, taken in isolation they will fail to consolidate the role of magistrates in summary justice unless they are enacted alongside other measures which aim to reaffirm the status of lay justices, and which seek to reverse the trend which has prioritised ...
- Jane C. Donoghue
- 2014
Jul 10, 2022 · Therefore, they should be removed. The abolishment of the jury would reduce costs and accelerate trials. If magistrates would have complete powers in criminal cases, the trust of the public in the achievement of a competent result would improve.
Jan 22, 2002 · Whichever way it goes, Sir Robin Auld recommends that a defendant should no longer have an elective right to trial by judge and jury in either way cases; that allocation should be the responsibility of the magistrates courts alone.
