Drax trial held in a climate of injustice

The outcome of the trial of the Drax protesters was determined the minute the judge banned the consideration of climate change I would say that if the law considers it acceptable to kill 180 people a year, then the law has some catching up to do. When Beth Stratford addressed the jury on Wednesday at the trial of the Drax 29 she was speaking in the knowledge that the judge in her trial had already secured a guilty verdict by his earlier decision to ban consideration of climate change from the proceedings. It was a bizarre, deeply flawed decision by Justice Spencer that determined the path of the trial from the outset. In his ruling he wrote, I rule as a matter of law that … evidence concerning the burning of fossil fuels and global warming is inadmissible. To rule otherwise would allow these defendants to hijack the trial... [read full story]                    

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