The move against jury trials reflects a growing trend among modern governments and legislators – not only in the United Kingdom, but in many other places – to assert their own authority over the constitutional order in exaggerated and destructive ways, David Thunder writes.
To quote Lord Patrick Devlin: “The first object of any tyrant … would be to make Parliament utterly subservient to his will; and the next to overthrow or diminish trial by jury.”...<<<Read More>>>...
