Empowered to lock you up for 18 months with no automatic right of appeal to the Crown Court, what do you think will be the class and ethnic profile of these 18-year-old magistrates?
I was born in September, so I was 18 for all but the first couple of weeks of the Upper Sixth. The school leaving age is now 18, so almost everyone, having started the course, is going to see it through. How employable would anyone be who had not done that? We are talking about the practically unchallengeable verdicts and sentences of white, upper-middle-class schoolchildren.
Tory Boy JP.
ReplyDeleteWe should be so lucky. One of those youths who were still in the Labour Party even now.
DeleteWhere available there'd be ethnic diversity to mask the class uniformity. Like now.
ReplyDeleteYes, I expect that you are right.
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