Here are four things you should know before forming an opinion on jury-free trials. There are almost 77,000 cases waiting for ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fewer jury trials could take place as part of proposed reforms to prevent a "total system collapse" of the UK's courts and tackle a record-high backlog of cases.