The left-wing government’s plans to scrap jury trials for most cases in Britain cleared a major hurdle on Tuesday as Members of Parliament backed legislation to advance it to the next stage of the lawmaking process.
The deeply controversial measure, concocted by Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy, would upend a millennium of English legal tradition in a supposed bid to reduce the backlog of cases currently waiting to be heard by courts.
Lammy claimed on Tuesday that if his changes are not implemented, the already record 80,000 case backlog will balloon to upwards of 200,000 by 2035.
“To restore swift and fair justice, we…
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