{"id":294289,"date":"2025-12-02T04:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294289\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:58:08","slug":"deputy-pm-david-lammy-set-to-announce-jury-trial-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294289\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy PM David Lammy set to announce jury trial reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The leaked plan does not apply to Scotland or Northern Ireland and was circulated to other departments before final Cabinet sign off. It goes further than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm2m808kml0o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recommendations earlier this year from retired Court of Appeal judge Sir Brian Leveson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking ahead of the announcement in Parliament, Lammy declined to confirm the final package, but said there would be an extra \u00a3550m over three years for specialist victim support services &#8211; and \u00a334m aimed at attracting more barristers into criminal work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Juries remain and will always remain a fundamental part of our justice system and play a very, very important role the decision,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[If] someone steals an iPhone from an electrical shop tomorrow &#8211;  is it right that that individual should be able to opt for a jury?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That case will be in the system, it will be two or three days in court, and therefore delay the rape, the murder, the more serious offence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In all of the decisions that we&#8217;re making, we are determined to put victims at the centre of the system and to balance those victims against the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leaked plan does not apply to Scotland or Northern Ireland and was circulated to other departments before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-294289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}