Responding to proposals from the Justice Secretary that jury trials should be scrapped except in the most serious cases, Green MP Sian Berry said:
“This is yet another assault on our rights from an increasingly authoritarian government. This proposal would scrap a fundamental cornerstone of our justice system which has been in the place for 800 years.
“For David Lammy to describe the right to trial by jury as ‘not a right’ is a disgrace. The Government must fund our justice system properly – not make people pay for Labour and Conservative austerity with their fundamental rights. The Green Party will fight these proposals all the way.”
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