Sir Brian Leveson has warned that the UK's court system is in 'deep crisis', leaving victims, witnesses and defendants ...

Sexual assault, incest and stalking could be among the crimes tried by a new type of court that doesn’t involve a jury, under ...

The automatic right to a trial by jury could be axed for fraud cases and some sexual offences under radical reforms being ...

The Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, likes saying it, as did her predecessor, Alex Chalk, and his predecessor-but-one, ...

Sir Brian Leveson has unveiled plans to shake-up the structure of courts and reclassify offences on Wednesday.

Jury trials for some crimes should be swept away in radical reforms to avoid the total collapse of the criminal justice ...

Here are four things you should know before forming an opinion on jury-free trials. There are almost 77,000 cases waiting for trial in the Crown Court in England and Wales. This means some defendants ...

Here is how a trial could work without a jury. An option could be to give Magistrates Courts the powers to hand custodial sentences of more than one year, as is the current limit.

Ahead of publication of Leveson review, Shabana Mahmood says jury trials take five times longer than cases heard in the ...

The Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood addressed the state of the UK justice system in response to Sir ...

Britain must radically reform its criminal justice system, including by removing the right to trial by jury for certain ...

According to the Telegraph, reviews in the past have suggested reforms to the court system which could allow defendants ...