Britain's justice minister on Tuesday unveiled a "once in a generation" package of reforms to tackle an "emergency" in the ...

The right to trial by jury will be pared back in Britain in an attempt to clear a backlog of cases clogging up the justice ...

The Justice Secretary is expected to set out plans to boost control for judges on how to handle cases, and create faster ...

Right to trial by jury seen as a touchstone of the British justice system, but severe court backlogs may prompt change.

About half of all jury trials will instead be heard by magistrates or a judge under a radical shake-up of the criminal court ...

David Lammy said juries will be replaced with single judges for ‘either-way’ offences likely to result in a sentence of three ...

Jury trials for crimes that carry a likely sentence of less than three years will be scrapped, the justice secretary has ...

London: Britain’s justice minister vowed Tuesday to unveil “the most sweeping modernisation” of the courts “in a generation”, expected to include scaling back jury trials in England and Wales. The ...

Justice secretary David Lammy has announced plans to scrap jury trials for crimes likely to carry a sentence of three years ...

Britain will remove the historic right to trial by jury for defendants in many less serious criminal cases in an effort to ...

The government’s proposals on jury trials go too far in eroding our fundamental right to be judged by a jury of our own peers ...