Labour’s plan to slash jury trials at odds with past Starmer calls to expand them
PM once advocated for all criminal cases to be heard before juries even those at magistrates court level, it has emerged
David Lammy’s plans to drop juries for all except the most serious cases will create “further unfairness and miscarriages of justice” for black, Asian and minority ethnic defendants, critics have claimed.
A leading barrister and pressure groups have cited the justice secretary’s own 2017 review into prejudice in the criminal justice system as evidence that juries help to root out racism.