The new and decisive impulse for Starmer’s commissioning of the report is his government’s drive to impose mass repression ...

Sarah Pochin raised serious concerns about the disturbing “halal bride” website during a recent session in Parliament. The ...

Suspected sex offenders and drug dealers are among thousands of defendants who could be stripped of the right to a jury trial ...

As new proposals suggest jury-free trials to clear the UK's crown court backlog, new figures show that there were about 77,000 cases waiting to be heard at the last count. Thousands of defendants ...

Police should no longer be allowed to keep a record of people’s cautions until they are 100 years old, a Government review ...

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

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

Tracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among measures proposed by technology companies to ...

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

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 ...

This is the introduction to Blighty, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their gaze on the latest developments in Britain. Matthew Holehouse, our British political ...