Fiona Atkinson
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Mother & grandma. Thought she was leaving education to write her book, spend time with her granddaughter, drink coffee with friends & walk the lakes. But then faced up to climate breakdown. Now doing all she can & hoping you are too.
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Wowzer. I have been considering training to become a magistrate. I think I had assumed all custodial sentencing would be done at Crown Court, and such part timers would not hear sexual offences.
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These are what the decisions look like on the ground. Not high level declarations about ‘structural change’ but people’s cases - and people’s lives.
Show PostSeriously, get them to spell it out. Will they put a limit on a complainant’s evidence in a sexual assault? On the defendant’s police interview length? Will they put a limit on expert reconstruction evidence in a fatal road traffic incident? Or on forensic accountancy in a fraud?
Show Post* And here is the killer question - quite what is it that is going to be speeded up? Sure, you lose swearing a jury and the summing up. But you gain lay people (assisted by a legal advisor) having to decide and then write reasons. So where are things getting quicker?
Show PostAnd on that note - how long will they be volunteering for? Because a sexual assault jury roughly takes between 2-4 days to try. That’s to do justice to a complainant’s evidence - and to a defendant’s case. How long does the government say they should take?
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