Robert Jenrick attacked David Lammy for backtracking on his previous support for jury trials. The Tory shadow minister said the justice secretary was the “best opponent” of his own reforms, which will ...

David Lammy defends Leveson review and says Crown court backlog will exceed 100,000 by the time of the next election without ...

Juries have been a key part of English law dating back to the Magna Carta of 1215, which stated no free person shall be arrested or imprisoned “except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the ...

David Lammy has confirmed 12 more prisoners have been released in error over the last three weeks. Speaking on BBC Breakfast ...

Justice secretary David Lammy has proposed to abolish jury trials for a wide swathe of criminal cases presently tried in the ...

Watch live as David Lammy addresses the House of Commons on Tuesday (2 December) after confirming that 12 more prisoners have been released in error over the last three weeks. The justice secretary ...

A senior Labour MP has issued a plea to Justice Secretary David Lammy to scrap "stupid" plans to reduce the number of jury ...

David Lammy’s jury lay-offs aren’t swift justice – they’re a sell-out - COMMENT: The justice secretary says he is not going as far as plans leaked last week to abolish almost all jury trials, but why ...

David Lammy has confirmed two more prisoners have been released in error over the last three weeks. Speaking on Sky News on Tuesday morning, the justice secretary confirmed there have been two ...