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Juries Are the Last Line of Defence We Cannot Afford to Lose

Jury trials aren’t an old-fashioned courtroom ritual but a core democratic safeguard that puts ordinary citizens between state power and individual liberty. If governments can spend vast sums on war, prisons and surveillance, they can fund public justice that remains visibly accountable to the people. Weakening or removing juries in common-law systems quietly shifts power away from citizens and towards officials, eroding one of the last defences against arbitrary punishment.

Juries Are the Last Line of Defence We Cannot Afford to Lose
Juries Are the Last Line of Defence We Cannot Afford to Lose