What ‘evidence’ would Lady Dorrian and others have after a pilot scheme of juryless trials? Presumably the conviction rates would increase, which is what such people want, so juryless trials would be judged “successful” regardless of the innocence or guilt of the men in question. Yet more innocent men in prison, a feminist dream.Conservative MSP Russell Findlay asked for her own view on the matter, with the Lord Justice Clerk saying: ‘I took the view that this was something worth looking at, that was my position. Simply that it’s something worth looking at.
‘It’s worth examining, it’s worth having a pilot because, as I’ve already said, then we would have the evidence.’
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Lady Dorrian is well acquainted with Juryless trials. She convicted Craig Murray all on her own of Jigsaw Identification.
She will suit the Feminist aims. Judges should never be allowed such power.
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yes indeed. it certainly wouldn’t be that a trial was fair and “beyond reasonable doubt”. I note that the Scottish equivalents of the Criminal Bar Association uniformly opposed the idea. As a reminder the CBA in England and Wales estimated that 25% of sexual crime convictions were “unsound” up to the scandal in 2018, with a series of Rape trials were stopped or resulted in excoriating statements by Judges about the behaviour of the CPS and Police.Even the BBC managed a survey and programme that found Solicitors and Barristers surveyed made a similar estimation of injustice. Which in fact had been about the same estimate made in a Ministry of Justice report in 2017. Alison Saunders was “let go” in 2018 and did not get the usual honour (unlike her predecessor Keir Starmer) until 2020. Samuel Armstrong, aquitted of rape summed up her tenure ” Saunders’ one-woman crusade to shift the scales of justice in sex cases not only ruined the lives of dozens of young men but of Paul Gambaccini as well.” After Mr. Gambaccini had won a “settlement from the CPS”.
With such evidence of the deliberate undermining of due process the Scottish idea looks dodgy in the extreme.
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