A prominent legal figure and founder of Sir Keir Starmer’s former barristers’ chambers has launched a scathing attack on government proposals to restrict access to jury trials, branding them a "betrayal" of Labour values and a "cure worse than the disease".
Geoffrey Robertson KC, a former joint head of Doughty Street Chambers where Sir Keir and Attorney General Lord Richard Hermer previously worked, published a 31-page polemic on the Bar Council website, arguing the reforms would "take an axe to a piece of English heritage".
