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10:45 pm, May 18th, 2009 - 3 comments
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The Herald are currently running a poll asking ‘[s]hould people facing charges punishable by less than three years imprisonment be able to be tried by a judge alone?’
The only problem with this question is that currently unless the defendant elects otherwise all such charges if possibly punishable by more than three months jail are tried before a Judge alone. It is only if the defendant makes a conscious decision to elect having a jury trial that such a trial can eventuate.
It would help for a properly reasoned debate about the issues for the correct information to be supplied by our media.
Greg
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Yep. Expectations set waaaaaaaaay too high.
Its up there with if you opposed the anti-smacking bill that meant you were indifferent to child abuse.
No, it’s up there with “anti-smacking bill”.
My partner is studying law and they have been talking about this change. I don’t know what it’s like in other countries but basically they are saying our court systems are clogged.