Thought for the day…

The first object of any tyrant in Whitehall would be to make Parliament utterly subservient to his will, and the next to overthrow or dimimish trial by jury. [It] is more than an instrument of justice and more than one wheel of the constitution: it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

Lord Patrick Devlin (1956)

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