Yet more trouble for the Crown Prosecution Service, which either acquits in secret (notably, flagrantly guilty peerage salesmen) or convicts in secret, in which latter case the trial in open court is nothing more than a very expensive and time-consuming sentencing hearing.
Acquittal without trial is as bad as conviction without trial.
If there was insufficient evidence, then the accused should never have been charged.
Give back the Police their powers of prosecution, and let firms of solicitors build prosecution work into their normal caseloads, as they always used to do.
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