The British government wants to scrap jury trials in order to clear the outstanding caseload.
Record numbers of victims are waiting more than a year for their cases to be heard in the UK, and clearing the backlog “could take nearly 300 years,” Courts minister Sarah Sackman has said.
According to Ministry of Justice figures, there is currently a backlog of 80,061 cases in Britain’s crown courts, and 370,722 cases in lower magistrates’ courts, an increase of 5% and 11% on last year, respectively. Some 6,000 crown court cases have been waiting for more than two years, with 2,000 rape cases held up for more than a year.
The closure of courts and government institutions during the Covid-19 lockdowns is directly responsible for soaring wait times, with the crown court’s caseload doubling since 2020.
Speaking to Sky News on Friday, Sackman claimed that the ruling Labour Party is “starting to stabilize the backlog,” but “at this pace, it could take nearly 300 years to clear the backlog to pre-pandemic levels.”
Britain’s outgoing prime minister, Keir Starmer, has added to this backlog by pushing for the prosecution of hundreds of people for expressing right-wing and anti-immigrant sentiment online, and by proscribing Palestine Action, a decision that has led to the arrest and prosecution of more than 3,300 people.
In the meantime, Starmer has freed thousands of hardened criminals from British prisons to make way for those convicted of speech crimes. More than 1,000 convicts were released early in 2024, as British police rounded up people who participated in or encouraged anti-immigration riots. Up to 7,000 more will be released early this September, with the Conservative Party warning that “killers and rapists, including the evil rape gang perpetrators” will be among them.
Starmer’s government has argued that the court backlog can be tackled with increased investment, and by handling more cases at magistrates’ courts, where they are typically resolved faster.
However, the prime minister has also utilized the crisis to reshape the UK’s justice system. A bill put forward by the government earlier this year would abolish jury trials for all but the most serious offenses, such as murder and rape. The bill has been condemned by lawyers and civil rights groups, with the Bar Council calling it “an unpopular, untested and poorly evidenced change to the jury system,” and the Society of Asian Lawyers defending juries as a “crucial check against state overreach.”
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Problem-Reaction-Solution.
1. Import the illegals, soften policing, understaff the courts.
2. Overstate 300 years to sell the lie.
3. Abolish the only thing restricting totalitarianism – jury trial by your pairs.
4. Implement AI court decisions.
5. Full technocratic oligarchy by the same unelected societal “elite” the soon to be “judge class”.
Peers but yes agree with you 100%. Clearly dismantling democracy one brick at a time.
The dawning of totalitarian dystopia.
And all by design.
It is where the fake democracy has always been heading.
The Elites want their power back.
“Elites” should always be written in inverted commas.
“Deletes”
Ah the scamdemic, blaming that for their so called back log, of no doubt, statistically mostly imported and minority generated crime. A great excuse to further eviscerate democratic rule of law and have Orwellian kangaroo courts and trials, for people like me, who post spicy but honest comments on line, with their newly minted two tier justice system. Meanwhile real criminals get a soft pass and are back working for the minimum wage, before you know it. It could easily get as bad here if we insist on voting for globalists. Labour, for example has already tried on the hate speech legislation and the Nats are, “looking into it”.
AI could clear the case load in a week, then jury trials can continue for citizens only.
In modern usage, a “Star Chamber” is any secret, arbitrary, or highly unfair tribunal. A process where decisions are made behind closed doors, without transparency or standard legal protections and it operates without the constraints of constitution, of legislation, or of judicial precedents, in direct opposition to personal rights and liberty.
The Church Parliaments are trying to remove our English Constitutional Common Law Rights, as determined in the 1688 Bill of Rights, and replace it with Roman Civil Law. One of our rights is a trial by a jury of our peers. Another right is out right to bear arms. The Imperial Laws Application Act 1988 was enacted to enforce the constitutional process. The Act set the required process in law and defined all the territories in which it was to be enforced. It stated that the Common Laws of England apply, including the rules and principles of equity. No subordinate law could be made by any parliament and the Act also preserved the Privy Council as the highest Court of Appeal of NZ.
But this didn’t stop our unconstitutional New Zealand Company Church parliament, because in 1989 they repealed Section 4 of the Act of Settlement 1700, “The Laws and Statutes of the Realm confirmed”, which stated the Laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof. This was an attempt to remove our English Common Law Rights. Then again under the Supreme Court Act 2003, they enacted the unconstitutional Supreme Court into being, declaring it to be the ultimate Court of Appeal in an attempt to rid the country of access to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. We don’t hate Church Parliaments enough.
New Zealand’s Star Chamber: When Secret Justice is No Justice
https://plainsight.nz/new-zealands-star-chamber-when-secret-justice-is-no-justice/
Record numbers of victims are waiting more than a year for their cases to be heard in the UK.
Record numbers of children are waiting more than TWO years for their cases to be heard in NZ…
and then this happens:
https://assets.menz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/OIA-response-for-A-Kern.pdf
300 years, hence sentences of a 200 even 300 years are given out.