The president of the Law Society has described the proposals as

“an extreme measure that goes too far”.

The chair of the Criminal Bar Association has described them as

“a wrecking ball to a system that is fundamentally sound and has been in place for generations”.

He pointed out that the juries are not the cause of the backlogs. The Government’s own Back-Bench MPs have described the proposals as a “dereliction of duty”,

“a ludicrous proposal that will not work”,

and

“a fundamental change to how our criminal justice system operates”,

which “goes too far” and the consequence of which would be

“to destroy justice as we know it.”

Why do the Government think that they are all wrong?