Guilty until proven innocent.

Not quite perhaps but well on the way.............

Some theft, assault, burglary and drugs offences will have juries axed under proposals

The changes could save in excess of £30million per year..........

OK, that sounds like a lot, but actually it's nothing compared to the money that we chuck on the EU bonfire. Let alone what is squandered on foreign aid to countries that don't need it and have economies growing faster than ours.What about the millions spent on protecting foreign criminals and bogus asylum seekers from deportation on some of the most spurious grounds? But this change has been well documented and indeed warned about for months. This will, if the reforms go ahead, bring us a little closer to the European justice model, that is what it is all about. What next?

• Peoples courts
• Political crimes
• Re-education centres
• Concentration camps

Pretty unlikely but then so was this a few years ago. I wouldn't bet against any of the above.

A wave of the big fat Cuban to Captain Ranty for bringing this to light back in November 2009.