Rob Rinder: Slashing jury trials is an attack on British values

Rob Rinder: The right to a jury trial in the most serious criminal cases is not a historical flourish but a guardrail
(Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)If you stand back and look coldly, almost clinically, at our criminal justice system, the case against jury trials might seem almost persuasive. Picture it: a court estate worn thin, trials postponed so far into the future they feel almost abstract on the calendar, victims ageing alongside their unanswered questions, defendants’ lives su