Is it true that the EU plans to abolish Trials by Jury?
Perhaps the most disturbing part of the Amsterdam Treaty are its provisions * for the legal system known as Corpus Juris to be introduced throughout the EU. (Corpus Juris can be introduced by Qualified Majority Voting, so the EU can introduce it even if we were to refuse it by a 100% majority in Westminster.) Corpus Juris will set up a European Public Prosecutor with over-riding criminal law jurisdiction throughout Europe, initially on matters of fraud against the EU budget, later to be extended to all criminal activities, which will thus come within the EU purview. Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury – rights enjoyed by Britons since Magna Carta – are explicitly to be abolished under these proposals. * The implications of this proposal cannot be overemphasised. As Churchill wrote “…the great principle of Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury … are the supreme protection invented by the British people for ordinary individuals against the state. The power of the executive to cast a man into p
