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@PeatWorrier @TCYJimB Unfair trials on sexual offence allegations are taking place daily due to their corruption of the rules of evidence to ensure more convictions.

Juryless trials are the next step for them. When will they realise they have gone too far and who will stop them?

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@PeatWorrier @TCYJimB It would not matter if SSBA posted a response they would view it as having the same weight as the opinion of mrs Miggins from down the road.

They view consultation and evidence taking as part of the required process before coming to the conclusion they wanted all along.

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Systematic corruption and organised destruction of evidence to ensure they are never held to account!

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@blairmcdougall I do wonder if any of this would have come out in the Scottish enquiry

Actually I don’t wonder at all

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@ScotGovJustice Less police to deal with issues. People now realise the police cannot attend and are dealing with crime themselves. A real worry for the future.

How this is to be celebrated as a triumph is beyond me. Actual crime worse than ever.

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@ScotGovJustice Convict more accused using unfair procedures?

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@scotgov @ScotGovJustice Absolutely nothing to support legal aid. Accused without lawyers left to navigate themselves through a process that could take away their liberty or children. Shameless. There will be no lawyers left to support the poor, disabled, disadvantaged or uneducated of society.

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@IanMoir5 Time to stop doing the work it is the only thing that will get them to listen.

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@euangosney Time to stop doing the work that is the only thing they will understand..

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@ScottishLegal Oh the irony!

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@broon313 I see Terrorist Dictatorship have gone for a very attacking 4-3-3 whilst Democracy FC have gone for an old school solid 4-4-2.

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@ScottishLegal The concrete is the least dangerous thing at Airdrie Sheriff Court!

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@Broonjunior Totally agree. It is only when we stop doing the work that they will take any notice of the defence bar and decide to engage.

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@GSLP_Matthew I take it there was the usual engagement and consultation with the local bar of not bothering to ask for their views or how it would effect their business? They treat us like something they have just stepped in. Time to stop the tail wagging the dog.

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@RoddyQC @PeatWorrier Frightening times for justice as we continue in this direction of travel for more convictions. Section 275 applications, this decision, juryless trials. Who will stop them to say they have gone too far?

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@PeatWorrier @ProfChalmers You don’t see anything worrying about this? Section 275 applications, restrictive cross-examination, this decision which we (practitioners) knew was coming to juryless trials. Please go and see what is happening in the courts. It is truly frightening.

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@Best_Defence Surely the old standard “don’t you know who I am?”. Followed by the production and sale of a couple of your Robbie books!😜

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@broon313 Totally agree Simon. What the public does not understand is that this is the direction of travel following from the interpretation of S275 applications to this to juryless trials to the conveyor belt of guilt. Justice dying with a whimper.

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@StuartM60765925 @ScotGovJustice @scotgov @AConstance23 There was a time when the Scottish Criminal Justice System was held as one of the best and fairest in the world. How far we have fallen when these halfwits go looking abroad to find some fad from a different system and try to incorporate it on the cheap here.

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@ProfChalmers @PeatWorrier @Scott_Wortley If this is the level of Academic critical debate following the decision in the Lord Advocate’s Reference then God help us. justice is well and truly lost! Will no one get off the SNP gravy train.

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@vgmcgovern @PeatWorrier Totally agree Vincent. These are dark dark times for justice. I will not be accepting any instructions in these type of cases as it is apparent that there is no longer a right to a fair trial in Scotland. We are living in a failed state.