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Your link ultimately led me to the Criminal Justice Act of 2003 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_Act_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_
by wahern 8y ago
Your link ultimately led me to the Criminal Justice Act of 2003 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_Act_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_Act_2003) and the 2010 trial of a bankrobber, the "first criminal trial without a jury to take place in England and Wales in more than 400 years". (https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/10/heathrow-robbery-trial-jury-twomey https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/10/heathrow-robbery-...)
That 2003 law also created an exemption for Double Jeopardy. I guess Parliamentary Supremacy finally defeated the Magna Carta.