Britain's justice secretary is catching heat for wanting to ditch jury trials for a bunch of cases because the court backlog is about to explode past 100,000. David Lammy says the system is basically broken, and victims are waiting years to see any justice happen. His plan would keep juries only for the heavy stuff like murder and rape, while pushing smaller crimes to magistrates or judge-only trials.
Legal experts are losing their minds over this and say it's gonna create more wrongful convictions, especially for Black defendants. The Criminal Bar Association and others think the proposals are both unconstitutional and won't even fix the backlog problem. Lammy is also throwing 550 million at victim support services over three years, but the incoming victims' commissioner warned that money alone won't solve the crisis of people waiting until 2030 for their cases to get heard.
Legal experts are losing their minds over this and say it's gonna create more wrongful convictions, especially for Black defendants. The Criminal Bar Association and others think the proposals are both unconstitutional and won't even fix the backlog problem. Lammy is also throwing 550 million at victim support services over three years, but the incoming victims' commissioner warned that money alone won't solve the crisis of people waiting until 2030 for their cases to get heard.
