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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (143848)	5/8/2001 10:24:42 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 769670

Now that's spooky.

To: greenspirit who wrote (143848)	5/8/2001 10:36:35 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

OT a little, justice system overhaul in the UK. thetimes.co.uk Even before receiving the report of the fundamental 18-month review by Sir Robin Auld, the Court of Appeal judge, officials were preparing to implement the reforms. They are ready to adopt some of his most controversial proposals, including the disclosure of a defendant’s previous convictions to juries and removing the right to jury trial in many middle-ranking offences. The reforms will also include: a single criminal court with three tiers to which defendants will be allocated by severity of crime; weekend and night courts; a duty to fulfil jury service; the scrapping of juries in fraud and child-abuse trials; and decriminalisation of a host of minor offences such as non-payment of television licences. Thousands of cases that now go to the Crown court will no longer be eligible for jury trial and will instead go to a new tier presided over by recorders sitting with two lay magistrates with powers to jail offenders for up to two years. The new Crown court centres will be combined with county courts; up to two thirds of existing county courts could be closed.