The Aberdeen Bar Association opposes plan to hold a pilot of juryless rape trials in Scotland.
Lawyers in Aberdeen have followed colleagues in Glasgow and Edinburgh in vowing to oppose the schemeThey have accused the Scottish government of a "deeply troubling attack" on the judicial system.
The government has said there is "overwhelming evidence" juries are affected by preconceptions about rape.Aberdeen Bar Association vice president Ian Woodward-Nutt told BBC Scotland it was "very hard to see how this will proceed" without lawyers agreeing to participate in the pilot. He took issue with proposals for public reviews of decisions made by trial judges taking part in the scheme.The lawyer said: "Never before have decisions at the Scottish criminal courts been subjected to this type of review by the executive.
The change to trials was proposed by another senior judge, Lady Dorrian, in a review that informed the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform Bill, with Justice Secretary Angela Constance claiming low conviction rates for rape and attempted rape were hampered by the "prevalence of preconceptions".
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