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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on December 02, 2025, 08:58:15 PM
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Death of Trial by Jury: UK Govt Insists It Must Destroy The Village to Save The Village
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/12/02/death-of-trial-by-jury-uk-thinks-it-must-destroy-village-to-save-village/
The UK government’s justice minister David Lammy launched into a full-throated defence of his plans to deprive suspects of a chance to be judged by 12 of their peers, insisting he has a superior understanding of Magna Carta and that the “emergency” justifies doing away with ancient rights.
The justice minister set out his plan to cut the backlog in pending legal cases before the crown court by reducing the quality of justice on offer on Tuesday, announcing new “swift courts”. Stepping back only slightly on what he soft-launched in the media last week as the abolition of trial by jury in almost all cases, Lammy nevertheless said the government is to go much further than a justice report’s recommendation by placing thousands of suspects in front of a single lawyer wearing at once the hats of judge, jury, and metaphorical executioner.
His opposite number on the Conservative benches, shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick, responded to the change by warning that if it was allowed to go ahead, it would be “the beginning of the end of jury trials” and lambasted the left-wing government for being so solicitous of the rights of illegal migrants while dismissing the ancient rights of Britons as historic curiosities of no relevance.
Let's just get rid of trials while we are at it. The Magna Carta is a very important document.