6/29/2023 0 Comments The secret barrister reviewAnd, among this number, as it happened, was Rio. Nearly 15 per cent of remanded prisoners are acquitted or not proceeded against. This is the position in which roughly one in seven remanded defedants – over 67,000 people in 2016 – find themselves. And, try as I might, I cannot accept that the arguments in favour withstand the slightest scrutiny. This hangover of thirteenth-century parochial peace-keeping, far from being gently put out to pasture, is re-engineered as our turbocharged, armoured vehicle of justice for the new millennium. Magistrates, and the quality of justice that their courts engender, are very much The Future. In twenty-first-century criminal litigation where liberty is on the line, matters of law, not just fact, are decided by volunteers armed with absolutely no formal legal knowledge or training
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