Not entirely. There currently are lots of “either way” offences that the defendant can choose to go to magistrates or a jury trial for, those will all now be up to a single magistrate. This includes many offences often used for protest, such as criminal damage.
Ministers drop plans to cut jury trials in England and Wales after outcry
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icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world 1 week ago
But how are they supposed to convince jurys to convince little old ladies of terrorism for protesting agaimst genocide?
Won’t somebody think of the poor genocidal maniacs?