Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.

Problems in the prisons and the courts are not new but they are growing and the government doesn't have a grip on them.

Justice Secretary David Lammy is proposing that only the most serious offences — including rape, murder, manslaughter, and ...

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As David Lammy is discovering, the doctrine of ministerial accountability is a cruel one. The ministerial code – the nearest thing we have in this respect to a written constitution – is clear. It ...

Justice Secretary David Lammy is reported to have said there is “no right” to jury trials in the UK and that the move would ...

David Lammy has reportedly written a memo to ministers and senior civil servants to say there was ‘no right’ to jury trials in the UK. Instead, he suggested that juries will only decide rape, murder, ...