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The Bar Council has recently accused the Labour Government of a "slight fetish" in wanting to reduce access to jury trial. Outline the proposed reforms and evaluate the implications of such actions.
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April 2004 Hemis No. 203121 3. The Bar Council has recently accused the Labour Government of a "slight fetish" in wanting to reduce access to jury trial. Outline the proposed reforms and evaluate the implications of such actions. According to the Human Rights Act of 1998 "everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law" (Wadham, Mountfield, & Edmundson, 2003, p.138). But the question remains; what is a fair hearing? And who constitutes an independent and impartial tribunal? Is a fair hearing one judged by a democratic panel of 12 citizens with no or little knowledge of the law but a broad range of ethnicity, gender, age and class with a scope of life experiences, or a judge with vast experience of the law but possibly a narrow social back ground? The government has failed on 4 occasions within 4...
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