Leading lawyer tells Lammy: 'don't scrap juries'

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Keir Monteith KC, a leading lawyer listed in the Legal 500, tells the Justice Secretary David Lammy "don't scrap juries" and insists the priority should be on fixing the issues in the system first. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00judges are unrepresentative of society. They're appointed by a system that relies on something

00:08that's called secret soundings. And that's a process that's actually been held to be unfair,

00:15but allowed to continue with tweaks. Only 1% of judges are black. A 2022 report,

00:25racial bias in the bench found evidence of institutional racism in the justice system.

00:31There's nothing wrong with juries, but there's a hell of a lot wrong with the system.

00:37And that's what needs fixing. Don't scrap juries, keep them.

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