Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed the Head of the Judiciary in England and Wales ‘is intent on turning the United Kingdom into a dystopian German style legal system’ by removing the right to trial by jury.
The Conservative MP also said Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr wanted to ‘inject the judiciary with leftist group think.’
Speaking on GB News, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “Trial by Jury is an ancient right confirmed in Magna Carta over 800 years ago. It is the cornerstone of the British justice system. And justice and efficiency are not necessarily bedfellows. In a competition between the two, justice must always win.
“There is a high risk that judges think they know it all and may become jaundiced by seeing too much evil in human nature. Juries may be more likely to find ‘not guilty’, although it could be that more often innocent people opt for trial by jury, trusting that fellow citizen more than an agent of the state.
“English jurist William Blackstone once said: it is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer.
“But it seems the Lord Chief Justice is intent on turning the United Kingdom into a dystopian German style legal system where the ancient rights of being tried by your peers is side-lined in favour of an elitist approach to justice with a sprinkling of woke ideology on top.”
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