The plan to forgo jury trials for defendants charged with lower-level crimes is aimed at easing an 80,000-case backlog in a court system booked as far out as 2030.

The British government has announced changes to the right to trial by jury to address a backlog in the justice system.

I don’t want to come in here with a sledgehammer,’ the prosecutor leading the special court told the judge during one of the hearings.

Home Secretary David Lammy says some jury trials are to be scrapped in a bid to clear court case backlog. Home Secretary ...

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The UK government on Tuesday tabled a new set of judicial reforms in Parliament that will scrap jury trials for crimes that carry a likely sentence of less than three years to fast-track the process ...

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