EU slowly destroying our justice system.

From: Gerald Jarratt, Baghill Road, Tingley, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. (Yorks Post)
WE are blindly walking towards the administration of justice by professional judges and consigning lay magistrates to history.
Few people are aware (or care) that, under Article 280 of the Amsterdam Treaty, we are required to bring in to being Corpus Juris, a criminal code drawn up in 1997, to create a single harmonised judicial system throughout the EU, based on Inquisitorial (Napoleonic) law.
An exasperating feature of EU politics is the way in which policies and laws of a controversial nature are slowly insinuated into our lives in the hope that few will notice.
The proposals by our Government to further emasculate magistrates' courts is yet another stealthy move to comply with the Amsterdam Treaty since it is a re-run of a similar exercise carried out
in 2001.