Submitted on Friday 26th June 2020
Rejected on Monday 14th September 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop the government from replacing juries and delivering fair justice
The gvt has had since March to identify 'Nightingale' courts to make jury trial workable. It has done nothing &let the backlog grow.
Now it will say that there is no choice but to replace juries - lie.
The court backlog was caused by govt cuts, not Covid
We had a bigger backlog in 2014 and nobody suggested abolishing juries
Any decision to replace juries with judges & magistrates would be in the interests of government, not justice.
41,000 cases is unacceptable. Our reaction shouldn't be tearing up the right to jury trial, and replacing it with trial by a single judge and two magistrates. Action means resourcing the system properly, re-opening courts, sourcing alternative venues.
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