Labour’s plan to slash jury trials at odds with Starmer’s past calls to expand them

PM once advocated for all criminal cases to be heard before juries, even those at magistrates court level, it has emergedDavid Lammy’s plans to drop juries for all except the most serious cases will create “further unfairness and miscarriages of justice” for Black, Asian and minority ethnic defendants, critics have said.A leading barrister and pressure groups have cited the justice secretary’s own 2017 review into prejudice in the criminal justice system as evidence that