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The Conservatives have said that preventing access to jury trials for offenders charged with certain offences would be “a big, backward step”.
Responding to the Leveson report (see 10.35am), Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, told Times Radio:
[Leveson] can see no limit to the type of case that can be taken out of jury trials. So this is a slippery slope. If you begin to take away jury trials for these cases, the relatively limited number of cases that he’s proposing, where will it end? It could just keep rising and rising and rising. And you see a serious diminution over the years in jury trials. And I think that’s a big, backward step because we should trust the public. We should trust our system that has served us well for generations.
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2025-07-09 09:46:00
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