It means he is vain with a high opinion of himself. (View Post)

In the spirit of the second post, the juror flouted not flaunted... (View Post)

A cursory scan of Leveson makes me suspect he is arguing from his own prejudices in replacing the jury with a couple of magistrates (in what he calls a bench trial). Juries are to be removed from min… (View Post)

Pre-sentence reports, victim statements, and mitigations could all be postponed till after sentencing and left to the Parole Board or a new body that could vary sentences either functionally or actua… (View Post)

The big problem is that it encourages low-level crime which is seen to have no adverse consequences for the baddies, thus tempting more in. This is either because governments decriminalise low-level … (View Post)