No Jury of Your Peers
British Justice Secretary David Lammy has proposed ending jury trials for most criminal cases, reserving them only for rape, murder, manslaughter, or other "public interest" offenses. Cases that currently go before…
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Peers hell-bent on killing the assisted dying Bill should be ashamed | Politics | News
Terminally ill Sophie Blake is among those campaigning tirelessly for change (Image: Phil Harris/PA)Christmas has come early for opponents of the assisted dying Bill. Having spent the last year complaining that the…
Prison sentencing reforms ‘pander to public opinion’, Bishop of Gloucester warns peers
PROPOSED changes to prison sentences are driven by politics and “pandering to public opinion”, and fail to look at the bigger, longer-term picture, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, has said.She was…
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