A friend worked at MoJ and was trying to get a research study done of what works in sentencing about 10 years ago. Couldn't even get judges to participate in the research. (View Post)

Im happy for him to be kicked off the jury. Or for him to be fined or banned from participating in future. But a prison sentence when (as everyone appears to acknowledge) there was no malice is absur… (View Post)

Okay, then yes it is absurd that we are sending someone to prison for this.. And absurd that we are happy for prior misinformation to be relevant but post misinformation to be worthy of imprisonment. (View Post)

Can you say more? (View Post)

She was prime minister. She could have spent more than 5 minutes designing a better scheme. People ok here warned about the excess generosity at the time. You'd think someone forever banging in about… (View Post)