If this goes through, circuit judges are going to try these cases and they want to keep juries."A spokeswoman for the Attorney General denied there had been an attempt to use judges in an improper way or that consultation had been rigged. She was owned by the Ministry of War Transport and was part of an Admiralty-controlled convoy.In a statement read to the High Court yesterday, Mrs Ledgard said she was very concerned by the prospect of her father's remains being disturbed by divers.If Petty Officer Varndell's daughters succeed in their action, the wrecks of hundreds of British and other merchant ships would fall overnight under the protection of the Act.During the Second World War alone, 2,500 British merchant ships were sunk by enemy action - mainly by German U-boats and E-boats. In 1985 it sold the salvage rights to divers from Hastings Sub Aqua Association for