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Slashing jury trials could clear courts backlog within a decade, says Lammy

Lammy aims to reduce jury trials by shifting most prosecutions to judge-only hearings and increasing magistrates' sentencing powers from 12 to 18 months to speed justice.

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The backlog of nearly 80,000 trials clogging up the court system could be cleared within a decade if parliament agrees to slash the number of jury trials, David Lammy, the lord chancellor, has claimed.
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The Canary broke the news in United Kingdom on Monday, January 5, 2026.
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