JURY trials will be scrapped except for rapists and killers in a radical plan to clear the court backlog, a leaked David ...

Plans to name and shame people on Community Payback schemes could do 'severe and long-lasting damage' to children with parents in the criminal justice system, experts warn today.

Objection! How dare David Lammy remove juries from certain legal cases. Overruled! Former Justice of the UK Supreme Court Jonathan Sumption argues juries don’t always get it right – and judges really ...

Charity chiefs and criminal justice experts have submitted a joint open letter to Justice Secretary David Lammy calling for ...

David Lammy stopped short of ending the right to a jury trial for all but the most serious cases, such as murder and rape ...

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 ...

Mobile phone thieves should not be able to demand trial by jury which could delay rape and other serious cases, David Lammy ...