Is representativeness actually a requirement? It's a "right to trial by a jury of your peers", not "by a jury of a statistically balanced sample of your peers". And in practice th… (View Post)

I'm reminded of the way stately homes became simply uneconomic in their original setup at the beginning of the twentieth century, as the cost of labour rose and it wasn't possible to have a massive l… (View Post)

It's not just in the air, it's in the House of Lords, isn't it? Gove's Leasehold and Freehold Reform bill doesn't make super drastic changes here, but judging from some briefing paper summary stuff i… (View Post)

I'm against it for reasons including but not limited to the certainty of guilt problem. I wouldn't want it even for apparently very certain and very awful crimes, on the "hard cases make bad law… (View Post)

The 1000 puts you in a pretty narrow date range even if you hadn't given the year: earlier crsids were shorter, and later ones were usually 5 characters and avoided initial 1 to minimise l/1 confusio… (View Post)