Founder of Starmerâs legal chambers condemns Labour plans to cut jury trials
Geoffrey Robertson says proposals to reduce backlog are betrayal of partyâs values and a âcure worse than the diseaseâThe founder of Keir Starmerâs barristersâ chambers has condemned the planned restriction of jury trials in England and Wales as âa betrayal of the values for which Labour purports to standâ.Geoffrey Robertson KC, founding head of Doughty Street Chambers, where the attorney general, Richard Hermer KC, and the justice secretary, David Lammy, also had their professional homes, has written a more than 9,000-word polemic to coincide with the committee stage of the courts and tribunals bill. Continue reading...
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