Clause 36 - Application by defendant for trial to be conducted without jury
Criminal Justice Bill
9:10 am
Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman seemed to suggest that the sweep-up provision in subsection (8) might give the judge the same breadth of discretion as amendment No. 202. I wonder whether he concedes too much when he so states. Subsection (8) requires the judge to consider it
''necessary in the public interest for the trial to be conducted with a jury.''
However, subsections (6) and (7) both use the word desirable.