Slashing jury trials could clear courts backlog within a decade, says Lammy

DAVID LAMMY: Jury trial change will be life-changing for victims - we have the guts to do it - The Mirror

Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy says witnessing cases without juries in Canada 'gave me hope', with victims paying the price for huge backlogs in the UK

Lammy blames Jesus for jury trial abolition. Jesus says nope.

David Lammy, previously an appalling foreign secretary, now an appalling and direly misnamed justice secretary, says Jesus is to blame for his attack on UK justice. Lammy is a disgrace. Lammy cites Jesus in jury trials decision He told the BBC Sunday programme that his faith was the reason he wants to deprive the vast majority of people of a proper trial, because it: calls me to centre the victims of crime. It calls me to centre the mother in my…

Lammy defends curbs on jury trials amid Labour backlash

Justice secretary says reforms are needed to tackle court delays as senior MP threatens by-election JUSTICE SECRETARY David Lammy has defended plans to restrict the use of jury trials, arguing the changes are necessary to reduce growing delays and “save the criminal justice system”, as opposition mounts within Labour ranks. The proposals, which would remove the automatic right to a jury trial for offences carrying a likely prison sentence of thr…

MP opposes jury trials move - Around Wellington

Gideon Amos, MP for Taunton and Wellington, is opposing the government’s proposed reforms to the jury trial system. The Justice Secretary, David Lammy, wants to scrap jury trials in England and Wales for crimes which carry a likely sentence of less than two years. Serious offences including murder, robbery and rape will still go before a jury but magistrates, who deal with the majority of all criminal cases, will take on even more work. Mr Amos …

Lammy defends plan to restrict jury trials to ‘save the criminal justice system’

Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy. Photo Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire David Lammy has defended plans to restrict jury trials as a rebel Labour MP threatened to trigger a by-election unless the UK Government scraps the proposal. Karl Tuner, a former shadow attorney general and criminal barrister, said he was prepared to quit the Commons to force a by-election to make his “principled point”. But Justice Secretary David Lammy said …