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carpetcleaner wrote:It doesn't say much for the quality of the Scottish prosecution system when it permits so many weak cases to go to court to be dismissed by a jury.

Possible explanations are that it is politicised, incompetent or a combination of both.

Is that really the full range of possibilities?

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Folding tyres, 26 X 2". Less than 200 miles, condition as pictured with some minor fraying of the reflective strip on one. Very comfortable tyres but it turns out I prefer something with a bit of tread.
£25 posted for the pair, or collected from Sheffield for £20.

Worth reading this from George Monbiot in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/15/tresspass-trap-law-land-travelling-people-rights The only problem with this article is that it's <i>[rude word removed]</i>. The proposed legislation, for which the consultation has been pu...

Yes, definitely. Apologies for the response, I knew the comments were ironic but reacted anyway. Possibly that's because the family's still in limbo and more or less forced into the position of either accepting that she left and won't come back, or publicly agitating for something further to be done...

Lawyer doing lawyer's job, to present his client in the 'best' way. "...a potential penalty up to 14 years..." Clearly, everyone would have preferred she stayed, faced the music, received 18 months, suspended, saw the victim's parents making the customary 'travesty of justice' speech outs...

How so? In raising the prospect of a 14 year sentence. Although her lawyer is (presumably) only trained in US law, it's basic legal knowledge that the 14 year upper limit applies where there are aggravating factors and that such a sentence isn't even remotely possible in this case. She's raised it ...

This road death is getting a lot more publicity than most. Trump and Patel have become involved. Has de Piffle stuck his oar in? Most road "accidents" do not become a political issue and I imagine this will affect the eventual outcome. Possibly. But she's already playing the victim card a...

This road death is getting a lot more publicity than most. Trump and Patel have become involved. Has de Piffle stuck his oar in? Most road "accidents" do not become a political issue and I imagine this will affect the eventual outcome. Possibly. But she's already playing the victim card a...

Having left the country at the earliest opportunity, Sacoolas has now made a statement through her lawyer to the effect that of course she would come back to face the music, but the prospect of a 14 year prison sentence is too much for what was basically an accident, so she won't. I believe she sai...

Having left the country at the earliest opportunity, Sacoolas has now made a statement through her lawyer to the effect that of course she would come back to face the music, but the prospect of a 14 year prison sentence is too much for what was basically an accident, so she won't.

With all the excitement of last week's GE I've only just caught up with the news that Mike Gapes, Chris Leslie, Anna Soubry and Chuka Umunna all lost their seats. Brilliant! AFAIK everyone who stood "differently" lost their seats. To their credit all stood down from their former parties, ...

It's in no way unusual for a conviction for causing death by dangerous driving to attract a substantial prison sentence - a lot of the leniency results either from a lesser conviction being secured, from acquittal after trial or indeed no adequate prosecution being pursued to begin with. A skim read...

When you make beer, the stuff is put in a mash tun to boil it and get all the different grains and ingredients cooked and to turn the starch into sugars. It isn't - no boiling takes place in the mash tun. What happens in the mash tun is, the grain is steeped in hot water (about 60-70 degrees Celsiu...

Brewing beer uses a mash tun, but that's to make all the ingredients mash together when cooked. No. The mash tun is where the malted barley is soaked in hot water to extract the sugars. That's the mashing process - soaking in hot water to extract properties from the dried ingredient(s) and add them...