1. Agree, ludicrous state of affairs.



2. Agree, but everybody knows the law really is an ass these days. The question should perhaps be why his counsel didn't challenge it.



3. Hmmm, the defendants were being tried for something far more serious than "sexism in the workplace".



4. It was my understanding that at least some of the accusers had not come forward previously because they felt, probably correctly, that it was their word against that of a popular, powerful celebrity and they simply wouldn't be believed.



5. Trial by media? Surely not (is there a tongue in cheek smiley?).

The Times has also discovered that the barrister advising Alsion Saunders worked, until recently at the same chambers as Janner's son

Ah...

The whole system is rotten to the core.

At least Keith Harris died before he could face charges of sticking his hand up a young bird

What an orville thing to say