Leading barrister and pressure groups say move would lead to more unfairness for Black, Asian and minority ethnic defendants David Lammy’s plans to drop juries for all except the most serious cases ...

Justice secretary David Lammy has been criticised for suggesting someone accused of stealing an iPhone from Currys should not have the right to elect trial by jury. Lammy relied on the example of ...

Justice secretary David Lammy has proposed to abolish jury trials for a wide swathe of criminal cases presently tried in the Crown Court. But will his proposal survive? Whenever home secretaries ...

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Defendants who will likely get a sentence of three years or less will no longer get a jury trial, the justice secretary has announced. In response to a mounting crown court backlog, David Lammy, who ...

Well, upcoming Channel 4 programme The Jury: Murder Trial will examine this very issue by re-enacting, word for word, a real murder trial at a disused courthouse in Essex. The jurors know it’s a fake ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. But The Jury: Murder Trial can claim to be insightful with a straight face. The show, whose second series just ...

A jury has failed to reach verdicts in the trial of aristocrat Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon over the death of their newborn baby. Marten, 37, and Gordon, 50, have been on trial for ...

CHANNEL 4 are unleashing their brand new show, The Jury: Murder Trial. The series examines the legal system by seeing if a jury split into two can come up with the same verdict. Please provide a valid ...

Jury trials in England and Wales for crimes that carry a likely sentence of less than three years will be scrapped, the justice secretary has announced. The reforms to the justice system include ...