UK to scrap jury trials for complex fraud cases and other offences

Justice Secretary David Lammy sets out the plans in the House of Commons. Photo: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA

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 system, the UK government announced yesterday.

Justice secretary David Lammy said overload and delays had created “an emergency in our courts” that risks collapsing trust in British justice.

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