17 Oct 2025

Those charged with terrorism for supporting Palestine Action will have no jury
in trials limited to 36 minutes each, with prison sentences up to six
months. These are the plans for Starmer Courts for mass trials of anti-Genocide
protesters.

The plans are devised by Justice Michael Snow. He is the epitome of judicial
prejudice. When Julian Assange appeared before Snow in the first hearing after
being dragged from the Embassy, Snow called Assange a "narcissist" even though
Assange had said nothing but to confirm his name, and no evidence had been led.

Snow has now decreed that those 2,000 people charged under Section 13 of the
Terrorism Act with supporting Palestine Action, will be tried in batches of five
at the rate of ten people a day - giving 36 court minutes for each
defendant. This is a farce, a spectacle of mass show trial. The 36 minutes
includes both prosecution and defence cases and cross-examination.

At a scheduling hearing on Wednesday, one of the accused, 72 year old Deborah
Wilde, objected that these trials would be far too short to present a proper
defence.

Snow snapped back "I'm satisfied that the time is sufficient. I am not going to
give more time. Your only remedy is the High Court".

As I am sure Snow realises, ordinary people cannot afford to go to the High
Court. The worrying thing is that the trials will be held before judges
including the appalling Snow, with no jury.
-- Cont'd at https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/10/36-minute-trials-and-no-jury-starmers-fascist-mass-courts/