Burnham scraps controversial Starmer plan to axe jury trials

The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.

The move is a U-turn on radical plans to cut thousands of jury trials across England and Wales in a bid to tackle the court backlog

Critics say scrapping of plans, which aimed to increase judge-alone trials to deliver swifter justice, leaves court system and victims vulnerable Ministers have scrapped plans that would have slashed the number of jury trials in England and Wales and replaced them with a judge…

Controversial plans to curb jury trials will be scrapped, the government has announced.