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David Lammy’s plans to introduce judge-only criminal trials in England and Wales will save less than 2% of time in crown courts, the Institute for Government…

Your article on a possible U-turn for magistrates to sit with a judge in a proposed “swift court” throws up a major obstacle (Plans to limit…

A potential government U-turn on changes to jury trials risks breaking a justice system on the brink of collapse, the new victims’ commissioner for England and…

Proposals to limit jury trials could be watered down after a backlash from MPs, peers and senior figures in the legal profession, the Guardian has been…

The backlog of nearly 80,000 trials clogging up the court system could be cleared within a decade if parliament agrees to slash the number of jury…

I understand the main argument for reducing the number of cases tried by jury: they take longer and are significantly more expensive (‘A move towards an…

Lammy says jury trials will be restricted to cases where offenders likely to get sentence of more than three yearsLammy says he is going to follow…

David Lammy’s plans to drop juries for all except the most serious cases will create “further unfairness and miscarriages of justice” for Black, Asian and minority…

Jury trials for all except the most serious crimes such as rape, murder and manslaughter are set to be scrapped under radical proposals drawn up by…

Your report (MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul, 20 November) confirms that next month the government will…