00:00So I think that undermining of our fundamental freedoms to a jury trial that has been there for many centuries,
00:05going back to Magna Carta in 1215, is a very serious step, and the wrong step.
00:12And I think there is an alternative. Nobody wants to see backlogs at the level they are at the moment.
00:17But this is a government that in the budget, of course, has spent 16 billion extra on benefits.
00:22I think it would be much better to put more resource into speeding up the court process to get that backlog down,
00:27rather than undermining our freedoms and jury trial.
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