Keep our Judges safe

The government’s proposed jury reforms means that findings of guilt in cases resulting in prison sentences, will be made by named judges rather than anonymous juries.

This results in an immediate threat to that judge’s personal safety. Named judges already are subject to a huge amount of social media abuse.

Further, these judges will sit at one centre rather than moving around the country like a High Court Judge and will use the same court entrance and exit, as members of the public and no doubt aggrieved families.

The risk is obvious, but the government seems blind to it.

Rodney Hylton-Potts
March 2026