Labour MPs. If you vote to abolish jury trial today this is what you will be remembered for. Not your breakfast clubs, your NHS funding, your employment reforms. This will be the most fundamental and significant assault on the human right to a fair trial in a generation.

Labour was built on the belief that justice must never belong only to the powerful. Today MPs vote on restricting jury trials. For Labour MPs it’s a test of principle. The poorest & most marginalised depend on juries. Today we’ll see who remembers why they came into politics.

The Labour Party David Lammy This is your Chris Grayling moment. Chris Grayling’s name is synonymous with catastrophic, long-term damage to the justice system. It is what he will be remembered for. It is largely why we are in this mess over a decade later. You will be remembered for the stance you took.

The Government admits there’s a risk of increased racial bias – yet plans to review the impact on ethnic minorities after the reforms take effect. Reckless. Irresponsible. Dangerous. Justice needs juries. labourlist.org/2026/03/lammys…

The Labour Party David Lammy You, The Labour Party MPs, owe your constituents and your country the benefit of your judgement. Not your blind allegiance to the rosette. Ask the questions you would ask of the opposition if they were trying to remove trial by jury. Because the answers - or lack of - will shock you.

These are people who have dedicated their entire working lives standing up for victims of crime. Today MPs are being asked to ignore them. Don’t let them. 👇🏻

The leader of all barristers across south-east England has said the deputy prime minister's plan to reduce jury trials risks "losing some legitimacy of our justice system". Claire Davies KC, leader of the south-eastern circuit, says the judiciary is "not diverse and

David Lammy As a woman let me say this - to use the abhorrent failure to prosecute rape cases to remove our democratic right to a Jury is cynical, opportunist and authoritarian. You are a shameless, pathetic man. Keep off our bodies and our juries.

This David Lammy fella needs to have a chat with the one called David Lammy who is trashing our criminal justice safeguards.

Well said, Sean

This from Geoffrey Cox KC MP was titanic - a truly beautiful speech. He outshone those sat opposite. They could only watch. And nervously laugh. This should be seen by every new MP to understand what they do, & every new barrister to understand what we do.

Joanna Hardy-Susskind Geoffrey Cox KC MP I have sat on a jury. 12 more different people you couldn’t wish to find and yet we worked together to find a verdict. Removing the right to trial by jury is disgraceful.

Absolutely this. I’ve heard this directly from sitting judges. If they’re bumped into becoming the tribunal of fact, recent experience leaves them vulnerable to becoming sitting ducks. The changes would fundamentally change their position.

30 organisations representing victims of violence against women and girls have written to the Justice Secretary urging him against curtailing the right to jury trials. The letter says they are “deeply concerned that the curtailment of jury trials risks unfair outcomes that

Depriving people of the right to trial by jury is an egregious assault on a pillar of our justice system. The opposition to these proposals is significant, be it the 3,200 lawyers, including senior barristers and retired judges, who wrote to the government last week about their

Retired judge savages David Lammy's plans to axe jury trials and says they will put the judiciary 'in the firing line' and WON'T save any money | Daily Mail Online dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

In a rare intervention, the country’s most senior judge has raised serious concerns with ministers about the Government’s plan to curb our right to jury trials. The Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, has warned that introducing judge-only trials for a

Regardless of whether the Govt curtail jury trials or not, my question is who is going to defend & prosecute the backlog? Lawyers are not race horses you can constantly whip. They break. And that’s why Bellamy said it isn’t for the faint hearted.

ViewFromTheNorth (JHKC) 🐝 Backlog in magistrates’ is at a record high (Vera Baird stats are wrong - it’s at a series peak of 379,437.) and rose by 17%. Much higher increase than the Crown Court. Bar logically urges that we this is considered before seeking to add complexity and also increase to

As Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst MP points out any pretence of time allowed for proper scrutiny of a Bill that will end the right to jury trial for over 30,000 serious cases is literally going up in smoke Vapour thin time to allow for any evidence to be shared with MPs #JusticeNeedsJuries