Juryverfahren müssen beschränkt sein, um das Strafjustizsystem vor dem Zusammenbruch zu retten.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/09/jury-trials-must-be-limited-to-save-criminal-justice-system-from-collapse-inquiry-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Von AdaptableBeef
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Yes only 1 side should prosecute and the other side does not defend and saves half the money and the legal system is safe from collapsing due to justice getting in the way
Scotland floated the idea of having the option of judge only for some sexual offences. The great difficulty is that when it is optional, no one signs up because it’s worse for defendants.
we don’t have enough prision spaces so i don’t know what speeding up trials is going to achieve. only thng we want going down that route is corproate tax abuse. a jury of 3 people who know finance.
Better solution:
Streamline the jury process. Video all trials. Any parts of the trial that a judge decides are procedural or inadmissible get removed from the video. Loads of pretrial meetings eliminated because they can just be clipped from the video.
Video is then shown to a juror in a private booth, and that juror gives a verdict. No discussion allowed – each juror decides independently. Jurors can watch anytime that suits them – evenings, weekends, whatever. Dramatically lowers burden on jurors. Need more throughput? – just buy more screens and seats!
Keep showing it to more jurors till there is a majority-12 decision. Ie. 2 not-guilty and 14 guity is enough to convict.
Process is far fairer since one vocal juror can no longer sway the entire jury – it more fairly represents the whole population.
Court then issues sentence.
For simple incidents a judge panel of suitably legally trained people would be more than sufficient.
It’s ridiculous that in the face of clear evidence people take a chance on a jury trial knowing its beneficial to their odds.
Another fundamental right that will evaporate with many actively cheering it.
Nobody should forget what the Conservative Party has done to this Country.
And those who say Labour are basically Tories disregard not only the catastrophic inheritance but also the groundbreaking changes they’ve been making with the little they have.
Those people are unserious.
So, the legal system would trample over the Magna Carta and infringe upon all our rights…yet refuses to even stop a dinghy? Got it.
Or we review what things are crimes. I roll my eyes every time a Government takes something that’s already a crime and makes it an extra specific crime to virtue signal.
Assaulting someone is a crime. Do we need the extra crime of assaulting emergency services, or assaulting a shopkeeper for example.
It’s far too easy for the Government to declare that the pesky defendants have too many rights and safeguards that need pruning…
I’ve a friend who was on a jury for a 9 month fraud case, he’s a smart man I would say, but the case was made out to be to complex for the jury to adequately understand what was happening, it wasn’t simplified well, so I understand why some should be taken away from a jury.
We currently have magistrates who pass verdict, and whilst we don’t want to lose the right of a jury, there’s a lot of clear cut cases that are taken to jury on a hope.
Why do we even need trials in the first place? Surely the government can just tell us what happened? After all, why would the CPS even bother prosecuting anyone who isn’t guilty?
1. This will require additional courts to accommodate the trials.
2. This will require additional judges.
3. This will require additional advocates.
4. All of this will require additional money.
And it’s point 4 that got us into this shambolic state in the first place.
The Ulsterisation of British society continues apace.
Nonsense! Just train more judges, open more courts, and improve in child upbringing, shorter sentences…and dare I say more without being banned about sentences?
Ah, it’s the juries that are expensive then, not the vast number of free/speech related cases that going through courts these days.
Reading over the suggestions I get that reform is needed because the justice system is so incredibly slow. Couple years back did Jury duty for a case that happened 5 years ago.
The issue with these suggestions is that it just handwaves minor offenses if it’s the first time or the judge thinks its minor.