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

Sir Brian Leveson was charged by Keir Starmer’s Labour government with proposing major changes to the court system, in the ...

Ex-judge Sir Brian Leveson has proposed that more than 150 serious offences could be dealt with using a new court division ...

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

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.

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

Sir Brian Leveson has unveiled plans to shake-up the structure of courts and reclassify offences. Reducing the number of jury ...

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

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