Will you join me in making this pledge?
They cannot scrap juries unless we as a profession are complicit.
We have the right to say no.
Barristers, solicitors, paralegals and caseworkers up and down the land.
Without us they have no Lammy Diplock Courts.
Make your voice heard.
My dear client. He sat beside me when I told his story to the Inquiry. I feel numb at his passing. He suffered so much and endured tremendous grief. He was stoical but marked by tragedy. Those malignants who put him through all this are beneath contempt.
Read this thread. Every word.
And then read it again, because you will not believe it can be true.
But it is. Every word.
@DavidLammy and @sarahsackman want to remove the right to jury trial in cases involving *death*.
Homicide cases.
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