The British government has announced changes to the right to trial by jury to address a backlog in the justice system.

Jury trials in England and Wales for crimes that carry a likely sentence of less than three years will be scrapped, the ...

Right to trial by jury seen as a touchstone of the British justice system, but severe court backlogs may prompt change.

The British justice secretary, David Lammy, announced the contentious move on Tuesday as part of an attempt to tackle a ...

Justice secretary David Lammy has announced plans to scrap jury trials for crimes likely to carry a sentence of three years ...

David Lammy said juries will be replaced with single judges for ‘either-way’ offences likely to result in a sentence of three ...

The United Kingdom on Tuesday unveiled its reform plans to scrap jury trials for crimes with an expected sentence of less than three years. The measure aims to reduce a 'record backlog of cases' in ...

Britain will remove the historic right to trial by jury for defendants in many less serious criminal cases in an effort to ...

Responding to proposals from Justice Secretary David Lammy to limit access to trial by jury, and reports that he described jury trials as “a peculiar way to run a public service”, Liberal Democrat Jus ...

The former Head of the Criminal Bar Association has warned that Government plans to scrap jury trials for all but the most serious offences would strip thousands of people of a “basic right”.

The right to trial by jury dates back to at least the 12th century. The government's proposals to limit it in England and ...

England and Wales have a backlog of 78,000 criminal cases awaiting trial by jury. That backlog is expected to continue growing if left unchecked. To clear that backlog, Justice Secretary David Lammy ...