Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The UK is grappling with an acute backlog of cases waiting to go to trial. - Yui Mok/PA/Getty Images For hundreds of years, ...

The United Kingdom’s justice secretary, David Lammy, is limiting people’s right to a trial by jury in England and Wales. Under proposals he outlined in parliament on Tuesday, only defendants accused ...

In a landmark ruling celebrated by human rights groups, the High Court in London has called the United Kingdom government’s ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 government announced Tuesday. Justice Secretary ...

Keir Starmer’s Labour government’s preparation for an assault on the historic right of trial by jury in Britain was exposed last week in a leaked Ministry of Justice internal briefing from Justice ...

Dec. 2 (UPI) --British Justice Secretary David Lammy on Tuesday announced that trials in cases likely to carry sentences of fewer than three years in Britain and Wales will not go before a jury. Lammy ...

For hundreds of years, Britons accused of substantial crimes have had the right to be tried by their peers in a court of law. But now as the country grapples with an acute backlog of cases waiting to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, listens to Lord Chancellor David Lammy speaking during the annual Lady Mayor's ...