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Last modified on Sat 10 Apr 2021 02.50 EDT Criminal lawyers and a former supreme court justice have raised concerns over plans for juries to hear cases remotely, after the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) suggested it could help keep backed up courts running through the pandemic. The proposal, a part of the government’s wide-ranging and contentious police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, would modify and make permanent the temporary provisions included in the Coronavirus Act that extended the use of video links in courts. It comes amid a record backlog of crown court cases worsened by court ...

Well, this has been fun. Shall we do it again?Next week marks the first anniversary of a vast social experiment. For almost a year now we have been under virtual house arrest, a policy that has

Priti Patel is to blame for the police breaking up the Sarah Everard vigil because of her “brutal” ban on all protests, an ex-Supreme Court Judge says. Jonathan Sumption accused ministers of “humbug” in trying to pin responsibility on the police – arguing the Met was placed in “an impossible situation”. Both Boris Johnson and the home secretary have criticised the scenes on Saturday, when officers grabbed women, forced them to the ground and led...

The Biggest Casualty of COVID-19 Is Your Individual Rights 1 “What makes us a free society is that, although the state has vast powers, there are conventional limits on what it can do with them. The limits are conventional because they do not depend on our laws but on our attitudes. There are islands of human life which are our own, a personal space into which the state should not intrude without some altogether exceptional justification. Liberal democracy breaks down when frightened majorities demand mass coercion of their fellow citizens, and call for our personal spaces to be invaded. Th...

EXCLUSIVE: Deborah James, who presents the Radio 5 Live podcast 'You, me and the Big C', said the NHS needs to be supported as it prepares to face a 'tsunami' of patients once lockdown lifts.