Trial By Jury

[smokingboot]

It's like our government is absolutely determined to shoot itself in the foot.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7vdvrnnvzo
Nobody wants the jury system scrapped, in fact suggesting it is likely to bring out every Magna Carta blatherer in the land.

XXXIX
Nullus liber homo capiatur, vel imprisonetur, aut dissaisiatur, aut utlagetur, aut exuletur, aut aliquo modo destruatur, nec super eum ibimus, nec super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terrae.

39
No free man is to be arrested, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any other way ruined, nor will we go against him or send against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

And yes, they can change the law of the land so that judges alone get to decide most cases, but this will just look like an assault on basic Brit principles. The horrendous backlog in court cases can be blamed on many different factors, but the key isn't to remove what is perceived to be one of our founding rights, even if it's been weaselled around many times.The key is to invest in lawyers and courts and infrastructure.

Talk about throwing red meat to the foe. This government is leaning way too hard on its majority.