James Hammerton's Blog: On Blair's "rebalancing" of the justice system

I commend this article to you. It displays the sort of logic that used to be the product of a rational education, but is now so rare in our emotion-driven public debates.

The key point, I think, is that in contrasting "accused" and "victim" (with all sympathy reserved for the victim), the proponents of "rebalancing" are guilty of revealing sloppy thinking.
James Hammerton's Blog: On Blair's "rebalancing" of the justice system