This is just an attempt to avoid jury nullification verdicts on cases like Palestine Action and JSO.

I was under the impression that jury trials have a higher false conviction rate so this is actually a win? Then again its the UK so I'm sure some way will be found to fuck it up.

A good article as ever by the Secret Barrister.

I do think though, that TSB faith in Judges, CPS lawyers, Barristers, to accept even miniscule changes to the current status quo is misplaced. They are very entrenched in their ways and resist change.

Part of me wonders whether the sledgehammer approach is intended to shake them out of their inertia so they might accept actual pragmatic changes to the system.