While many of use here are concerned about David Lammy's plan to recuse the incidence of jury trials (which has already been criticised for being unlikely to *actually* quickly rescue the backlog in courts, as intended), here is Natalie Fleet, who has direct experience of the court system (as a victim of sexual violence) arguing that actually judge-led trials may be better for the victims of crime.
#RuleOfLaw #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan/24/natalie-fleet-labour-mp-who-was-groomed-asks-colleagues-to-back-judge-only-trials
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