'Assault on rights of juries': activist decries Tory challenge to legal defence for protesters

Exclusive: Acquitted activist says attorney general trying to remove 'last remaining defence' for climate protestersThe woman at the centre of an attempt by the government's senior law officer to remove one of the last remaining legal defences available to climate protesters says the move is an assault on the rights of juries to acquit defendants.The young woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found not guilty by a jury of criminal damage in a climate trial last year. Continue reading...