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trial by jury

posted by [personal profile] emperor at 12:24am on 25/11/2005 under

The first object of any tyrant in Whitehall would be to make Parliament utterly subservient to his will; and the next to overthrow or diminish trial by jury...

Lord Devlin, Trial by Jury, 1966

Somehow, it seems relevant in light of this.
ETA: I have a .sig-file with the quote in from early 2000.
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