Judges and lawyers should consider a more jury trial-like approach where deliberation begins after the last exhausted lawyer, at the end of rebuttal, drenched with sweat, slumps into the nearest chair ...

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 ...

The United Kingdom’s justice secretary, David Lammy, is limiting people’s right to a trial by jury in England and Wales. Under proposals he outlined in parliament on Tuesday, only defendants accused ...

Justice Secretary David Lammy (left) and Prime Minister Keir Starmer (right) in 10 Downing Street. (Simon Dawson / Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) MANCHESTER, England (CN) — Critics including ...

The Starmer government is considering scrapping juries in a substantial number of trials, following proposals in Sir Brian Leveson’s report commissioned by Labour last December. Justice Secretary ...

Keir Starmer’s Labour government’s preparation for an assault on the historic right of trial by jury in Britain was exposed last week in a leaked Ministry of Justice internal briefing from Justice ...

A young mother stabbed her boyfriend in the chest. Some jurors think she was acting in self-defence – others suspect murder.