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England Scrapping Jury Trials?
Episode 44
Wednesday, 3 December, 2025
Send us a texts England getting rid of jury trials? Yes. According to a plan put forward by justice minister David Lammy, England will no longer allow accused to have a trial by a jury of their peers for minor and mid-tier crimes. Supposedly this move is needed to clear backlogs and prevent more serious cases from being delayed by the less serious ones. strangely, the proposal would not apply to Scotland or Northern Ireland with no explanation given as to why. Critics, including actual practitioners, have cried foul noting that the backlogs could be fixed via simply funding pre-existing offices and that this is merely a pretext for stripping away one of the most fundamental of democratic rights. This announcement comes on the heels of widely unpopular new English anti-free speech laws and arrests for “wrong think”, and the timing of this latest move has many UK citizens concerned. Do you think that citizens should be stripped of the right to a jury trial? Let us know in the comments and head over to our Substack at WorldBriefZMC for the deep dive and be sure to cast your vote in the poll.
