This article is relevant to AQA AS Unit 1, OCR AS Unit G151 and WJEC LA1.
John Lilburne is best known today as one of the leaders of the Levellers, the seventeenth-century political movement that argued for an extension of the suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance. Less well known is Lilburne’s contribution to the modern notion of what amounts to a fair trial and, through that, to the modern trial process. As a result of his first-hand experience of being a defendant in several trials, he formulated a theory of what constitutes the right to a fair trial that today finds its expression in our modern legal procedure and in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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