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Podcast: Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
Episode: Is the Right To Jury Trial Just History? And is the House of Lordâs Assisted Dying Filibuster an Attack on Democracy?
Description: As the Courts Minister, Sarah Sackman, announces the Governmentâs intention to enact most of the recommendations in Sir Brian Levesonâs Independent Review of the Criminal Courts, including the abolition of the right to jury trial in cases of serious, complex fraud, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC discuss the devastating attack on Levesonâs justification for Judge alone fraud trials launched by the former Resident Judge at Southwark Crown Court, Geoffrey Rivlin KC, in an article on the Red Lion Chambers Substack ââŻâ https://redlionchambers.substack.com/p/judge-alone-trials-in-serious-fraudâ Â
Is retired Judge Rivlin right to argue that the...