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UK intends to scrap jury trials for majority of court cases

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/uk/david-lammy-scrap-jury-trials
16•cbeach•1h ago

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dmitrygr•1h ago
On one hand, Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs are clear on why jury trials work poorly in multicultural societies. On the other hand, UK judges do not exactly have the best reputation recently, especially on matters of ... criticizing the UK. So ... yeah ... no good options here
graemep•58m ago
The UK is a very different society from Singapore.

Are his objections to jury trials correct in the first place? If they are, then do they apply to the UK? I find it very hard to imagine why multiculturalism should be a problem so can you explain what he thinks they work poorly/.

the good option is to keep trial by jury.

sgt101•54m ago
Unfortunately the system has basically been collapsed by industrial scale theft and fraud, and the impact of covid...
sgt101•57m ago
What matters of criticizing the UK? Let's have the specifics to discuss?
antihero•1h ago
GB News is a terrible website, here's a Guardian link: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/25/moj-considering-... who have their issues but are a far stretch from that rightwing rag.
piperswe•1h ago
This site obnoxiously tries to instantly give me an "anonymised.io" pop-up, which Fennec thankfully decides to ask me whether I want to visit. Apparently they're some sort of AI-powered marketing thing, whatever that means? Surprisingly wasn't instantly blocked by uBlock Origin.
bluescrn•59m ago
For those who don't like the source, also reported here by the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7vdvrnnvzo
ccppurcell•58m ago
GB news!? More sober sources describe it as "considering scrapping" rather than "intends to scrap".
a24j•58m ago
Wait what?
TheOtherHobbes•58m ago
Flagged for the source, which is not reliable.
poplarsol•57m ago
The UK is best understood as a "managed democracy" where there are nominally elections, but the government decides who will constitute its voting population, what they are allowed to say, and now whether they will be allowed to acquit people the government decides it would prefer to punish.
sgt101•50m ago
Nonsense.

- voting population? What are you on about? It's everyone older than 18.

- you are not allowed to say "let's go and kill xxxyyy" or "burn hotel xxxyyy" but more or less you can say anything else. You might get sued if you say "Kier Starmer is an XXXYYY" but possibly not.

- this is using a system such as the one that operates in many countries - like France. But note: Germany ditched jury trials in 1924...

reify•54m ago
GBNews. well well, what have we ere!

better block that right wing fascist shit immediately

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson stressed that “no final decision” had been taken, although legislation is expected early next year.

The reason why our justice system is in such and mess is the usual under funding fiasco.

All because of the continued fantasy of a low tax system.

So low in fact that the government cannot afford fuck all, and our NHS, housing, water, gas, electricy and justice system slowly collapse.

The old strip em bare and bring in private money trick.

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