On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 at 06:36:28, Webmanager_CritEst 
 wrote in uk.legal :

>On Sep 30, 8:55 am, Paul Hyett <p...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 at 13:33:40, Webmanager_CritEst
>>  wrote in uk.legal :
>>
>> >> Oh, you think so? Surely you mean "at times, the convictions is 
>> >>set aside as
>> >> unsafe".  The judge is responsible for any error there may be, and many a
>> >> guilty man has been let off on a technicality.
>>
>> >As it should be. The Reasonable Man does not have the capacity to make
>> >such decisions, without regular error.
>>
>> The only problem being *you have guilty men walking free*!
>>
>> IMO technicalities should just result in retrials, not outright
>> acquittals.
>
>You have read the title of this piece?
>
Well pointed out - I *had* forgotten it.

However, I stand by my previous point about retrials.
-- 
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham