UK Government Curbs Jury Rights as Court Crisis Deepens

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ER Editor: It’s all a movie. This one is surely designed to raise the hackles of any right-minded person. Jury trials were exactly designed to get a working class person judging a working class person instead of an upper-middle class judge from an extraordinarily expensive postcode and elite English public school.

Don’t look for logic and consistency, Sir —

🚨 Robert Jenerick EXPLODES on Keir Starmer and David Lammy after jury trials were SCRAPPED 🇬🇧

“Keir Starmer and David Lammy once defended jury trials.

Now they’re slashing them.

Do they have no shame?”

I agree with @RobertJenrick. These people are absolutely SHAMELESS❗️ pic.twitter.com/tRWQ3EDO3S

— BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧 (@BROKENBRITAIN0) December 3, 2025

This is utterly DAMNING for David Lammy.

“We are not looking to convict people as quickly as possible, we are looking for justice.”

A Barrister clinically dismantles David Lammy’s disgraceful decision to scrap jury trials.

Watch until the end.
It wont even fix the backlog. pic.twitter.com/gLrAGVeLjP

— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) December 2, 2025

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Ministers are restricting a centuries-old safeguard and shifting more cases to judge-only courts.

TEC NEWS

The British government will scrap jury trials for offences carrying likely sentences of under three years, a major curtailment of a centuries-old safeguard that ministers claim will ease pressure on England and Wales’ clogged courts.

David Lammy Adrian DENNIS / AFP

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Justice (ER: irony alert) Secretary David Lammy announced the reforms on Tuesday, insisting the changes were “necessary”—even as critics warned they risk undermining public trust and weakening defendants’ rights.

The plan introduces “swift courts” and hands more cases to volunteer magistrates, while serious crimes such as murder and rape remain jury-eligible. The move follows proposals from retired judge Sir Brian Leveson, who warned of a looming “system collapse.” But an earlier draft, leaked last week, showed ministers had considered going far further by ending jury trials for offences punishable by up to five years.

Lammy said restricting jury elections would prevent defendants from “gaming the system” and speed up cases by 20% as Crown Court backlogs surge toward 100,000 by 2028. Defendants in fraud and complex financial cases will also lose automatic jury trials.

Lawyers, barristers and campaigners argue the government is attacking a core democratic principle and that judge-only trials will deepen inequalities and erode confidence in the justice system.

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Featured image source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-jury-trials-cuts-labour-mps-peers

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