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Juries must be allowed to give their verdicts without interference | Letters

01-10-2023 18:36

Readers respond to an article on the principles of common law justice after the prosecution of a climate protester who allegedly held up a banner addressed to a juryI have three points to make in response to Prof Richard Vogler’s article on jury conscience (Trudi Warner reveals the dark secret of English courts: juries do have the right to follow their consciences, 27 September). First, every juror swears an oath or gives solemn affirmation to “faithfully try the defendant and give a

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It’s hard to pin down Nazi atrocities, as Canada’s speaker has just discovered | Robin Lustig

01-10-2023 10:03

There will be no more trials of Second World War criminals, but we can apply the lessons to modern conflictsIn February 1987, I was sitting in a Jerusalem courtroom, listening to the most harrowing testimony imaginable from survivors of the Nazi death camp at Treblinka, in Poland, where an estimated 700,000-900,000 people were murdered in 1942-43.The survivors, elderly and frail, were giving evidence in the trial of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-American alleged to have been a notorious camp guard

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Michael Mansfield KC: ‘The two-party system is a straitjacket’

01-10-2023 10:00

The barrister famous for his work on landmark cases such as Grenfell, Stephen Lawrence and the Birmingham Six has written a book about fighting injusticeThe Birmingham Six. The Guildford Four. The Mangrove Nine. The McLibel Two. The Angry Brigade. Kenneth Noye. Valerio Viccei. Bloody Sunday. The Marchioness disaster. Stephen Lawrence. Hillsborough. Grenfell. The landmark cases in which Michael Mansfield KC has been involved as a barrister add up to a legal panorama of the last half-century. Now

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Legal aid pay boost for Illegal Migration Act work

01-10-2023 09:58 via lawgazette.co.uk

Government says 15% increase represents fair recognition for new expectations of lawyers.

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