LIVE: David Lammy Sets Out Jury Trial Reforms to Tackle Court Backlog

Описание: David Lammy is expected to announce that he will scrap the right to trial by jury in “either way” cases, where defendants are given the choice to have their cases heard by magistrates or in a crown court.

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Last year an estimated 13,000 either way cases — including theft and handling stolen goods, burglary, assault causing actual bodily harm, fraud, dangerous driving and possession of drugs with intent to supply — went before juries.

Under the government’s reforms, their cases will instead be heard by a single judge. It goes further than recommendations earlier this year from Sir Brian Leveson, a former appeal judge, that they should be heard by a judge and two magistrates.

However the justice secretary has abandoned more radical plans to go further by dropping jury trials in all cases bar murder, rape and manslaughter after a significant backlash from the legal profession.

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