Justice secretary and deputy prime minister David Lammy has announced plans to scrap jury trials for all but the most serious cases. (Alamy) Jury trials in England and Wales will be scrapped for ...

A joint select committee (JSC) of Parliament will be established to consider the issue of jury trials versus bench trials, a ...

Defendants who will likely get a sentence of three years or less will no longer get a jury trial, the justice secretary has announced. In response to a mounting crown court backlog, David Lammy, who ...

The Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial puts significant limits on administrative adjudications, but defendants may waive that right without realizing it. There is now a circuit split on whether ...