The UK government’s justice minister David Lammy launched into a full-throated defence of his plans to deprive suspects of a chance to be judged by 12 of their peers, insisting he has a superior understanding of Magna Carta and that the “emergency” justifies doing away with ancient rights.
The justice minister set out his plan to cut the backlog in pending legal cases before the crown court by reducing the quality of justice on offer on Tuesday, announcing new “swift courts”. Stepping back only slightly on what he soft-launched in the media last week as the abolition of trial by jury in almost all cases, Lammy nevertheless said the government…
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