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Protesters throw a statue of Edward Colston into Bristol harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in June 2020
THE attorney general has been accused of launched a “general attack on the use of juries” in the Colston Four case, a court has heard.
Four protesters were acquitted by a jury of criminal damage in January after pulling down the bronze statue of the 17th-century slave merchant at a Black Lives Matter demonstration.
All four had admitted involvement but denied their actions were criminal, claiming the statue itself had been a hate crime against the people of Bristol.
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
Court of Appeal rules key anti-protest legislation was forced through unlawfully