Is luke combs the country guy? I recognise the name.

Most of the quote tweets of Reform UK's tweet are too fluent in Glasgow's other favourite language (🤬) to share, but this one from the Education correspondent at The Scotsman newspaper is a favourite...

On the other side of this, I do find it quite annoying that my mum defaults to contacting my gf about the kids presents. I was quite happy she called me from the toy shop this afternoon. Turned out she only called my as my gf didn't pick up the phone.

"Good morning" suggests I believe they may be good and it may be read in the morning. I would not wish to commit so fully.

I have some shocking news for you about the very commonly held belief among criminal lawyers about the fairness of trials in the mags I'm afraid!

Thanks. That seems to completely undermine the point of making low level thefts summary only 🤷‍♂️

With respect, what do you know about conducting judge only trials in the mags courts versus jury trials in the CC to reach that opinion?

In any event, the problem for me is a big change with little thought about it & whether it will achieve the objectives.

Like I - and everyone who has experience of jury trials - keeps saying: juries are not the things that slow down cases and prevent them happening. The major cause is a lack of judges & lawyers to try cases. But here SB provides a list from their recent cases.
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As you say, juries really aren't the primary driver of delays. Here are just a few:
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I feel the same about all the remakes Hollywood seems to think we need. There must be someone out there who still has an original idea to make!??

The big problem for me is that this is being sold as a way to cut the backlog, which is BS as the backlog has little to do with juries. I really don't like the idea of big changes being made without good reason or proper thought being given to them.

We should call this out for what it really is: justice on the cheap. The cause of the backlog is a lack of judges and lawyers to deal with cases. Cutting out juries may speed things up a tiny bit, but it isn't the primary driver of delays. This is really about cost cutting not justice & not delays.

They could open the courtrooms that sit idle and employ sufficient judges to actually clear the backlog. Increasing legal aid so enough lawyers want to do it will help a lot too. Juries have very little to do with the backlog.