Simon Jenkins implies that removing juries will give us the benefits of European inquisitorial judicial systems or the enlightened Scandinavian approach to justice (David Lammy is right to slash the use of juries – it’s an open-and-shut case, 28 November).
Neither the Leveson report nor David Lammy’s memo suggest anything of the kind. They seek to retain the adversarial system and simply remove the democratic element that is its best safeguard in serious cases.
