Lawyers want to ban jury trials

During the committee meeting of the Joint Committee on the Draft Defamation Bill*, you will hear that some law firms want to abolish trial by jury. These odious creatures have the ears of our politicians, where we do not. The EU would approve, I'm sure.

The jury trial is the only mechanism which allows we, the people, to decide whether the law itself is just.

We need to keep an eye on this and fight to keep our jury trials!


* Committee Room 8 

Meeting started at 4.10pm
ended at 6.31pm

Draft Defamation Bill
Witnesses

1. Keith Mathieson, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Mark Stephens, Finers Stephens Innocent, David Price, David Price Solicitors and Advocates, and Marcus Partington, Media Lawyers Association
2. Nigel Tait, Carter-Ruck, Rod Christie-Miller, Schillings Lawyers, Jeremy Clarke-Williams, Russell Jones and Walker Solicitors, and Duncan Lamont, Charles Russell

Visit the Committee's homepage.