Justice Secretary and former lawyer David Lammy wants to scrap trial by juries in cases where the sentence is under three years to solve the massive backlog in our creaking court system.

As Star court reporter plans to cut trial by juries sends shivers down my spine. Being judged by your peers in a cornerstone of our democracy.

Scrapping so many trial by juries to save cash is beyond a knee-jerk reaction is it bodypoppingly bad.

It is like if another bad-decision making organisation, FIFA decided to overhaul football because the under-20 market do not have the attention span to watch 90 minute games and their bright idea was to remove the football, or the goalposts. Or something else which the entire world would mock and deride.

Trial by jury has been a lynchpin of our country's reputa

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