Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed the Head of the Judiciary in England and Wales ‘is intent on turning the United Kingdom into a dystopian German style legal system’ by eradicating the proper to trial by jury.
The Conservative MP additionally mentioned Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr needed to ‘inject the judiciary with leftist group think.’
Speaking on GB News, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg mentioned: “Trial by Jury is an historic proper confirmed in Magna Carta over 800 years in the past. It is the cornerstone of the British justice system. And justice and effectivity should not essentially bedfellows. In a contest between the two, justice should at all times win.
“There is a excessive danger that judges assume they know all of it and will change into jaundiced by seeing an excessive amount of evil in human nature. Juries could also be extra possible to discover ‘not guilty’, though it might be that extra typically harmless folks go for trial by jury, trusting that fellow citizen greater than an agent of the state.
“English jurist William Blackstone as soon as mentioned: it’s higher that ten responsible males go free than one harmless man endure.
“But it appears the Lord Chief Justice is intent on turning the United Kingdom into a dystopian German style legal system the place the historic rights of being tried by your friends is side-lined in favour of an elitist method to justice with a sprinkling of woke ideology on high.”
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