https://www.europesays.com/people/253688/ All the Starmer policies Burnham could scrap next after jury trial U-turn #AndyBurnham #Benefits #JuryTrials #KeirStarmer #ThamesWater
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"Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials"
When #Burnham first became PM, my expectations were that he would be better than Starmer, but still mostly pretty shit.
We have seen plenty of evidence to support the latter point, but it's nice to see we now have at least one piece of evidence to support the former point as well.
More of this sort of thing, please, Andy. Maybe you could lift the ban on Palestine Action next?
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/105061/ BREAKING: Andy Burnham SCRAPS Keir Starmerβs plans to end jury trials in MAJOR Labour U-turn #Analysis #AndyBurnham #BreakingNews #BritishPolitics #CourtBacklog #CourtDelays #CriminalJustice #CROWNCOURT #GBNews #GBNewsLive #GBN #JuryTrialReforms #JuryTrials #JuryTrialsScrapped #JusticeSystem #KeirStarmer #LabourGovernment #LabourLatest #LabourUTurn #news #NewsUpdate #politics #Reports #TrialByJury #uk #UKPolitics #WorldNews
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βI have heard the strength of feeling on the proposals for increasing the number of judge-alone trials in the crown court and have made the decision to change course.β
βThis is a significant and welcome move away from reducing the only part of the criminal justice system that actually works, namely jury trials.β
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jury-trials-burnham-lammy-scrapped-37730535
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https://www.europesays.com/people/207763/ Tests loom for Burnham as parliament convenes #AndyBurnham #Budget #CostOfLiving #DefenseSpending #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #EuropeanBloc #EuropeanLeader #IncomeTax #JackdawFields #JuryTrials #KeirStarmer #LabourNetZero #LabourParty #MPs #NigelFarage #NorthSea #Parliament #prisoners #RosebankFields #SocialCare #UkLeader #UKPrimeMinister #Unions #UnitedNationsGeneralAssembly #westminster
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RE: https://rssfeed.media/@guardianfeeds/117014751010503374
But Palestine Action?
Ah, going to be bad news on that, so best get out the good news to drown it out. Very 'Tony Blair'
#UKLaw #JuryTrials #UKPol #UKPolitics #AndyBurnham #PalestineAction
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Mashable: Prosecutors use manβs ChatGPT log in unsuccessful arson trial. βAccording to California prosecutors, suspected arsonist Jonathan Rinderknecht βused ChatGPT like a diary,β not only building up a fascination with fire but generating images of cities burning, reports the BBC. In one prompt pulled from Rinderknechtβs ChatGPT history, he asked the AI whether he could be held responsible [β¦]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/01/mashable-prosecutors-use-mans-chatgpt-log-in-unsuccessful-arson-trial/ -
"Thousands of Lawyers"
But Epstein Class Labour politicians know better than all those, and they're not raging narcissists at all....nope....
Did anyone vote Labour for this to happen? Of course not.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar/10/lawyers-urge-keir-starmer-rethink-plans-cut-jury-trials
#KeirStarmer #DavidLammy #JuryTrials #UKLaw #Starmer #Labour #UKPol #UKpolitics
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Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty
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Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty
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Lammy announces expanded AI use in courts alongside plans to limit some jury trials
π° Original title: Magistrates and judges to use more AI, says Lammy
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π₯ Usuarios: It's not clickbait βView full AI summary: https://killbait.com/posts/post/f07c453b-d07b-4431-8d1e-8efb48349c42
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Lammy warns court backlog may keep rising despite reform package to ease pressure
π° Original title: Court backlog will continue to rise even with new reforms, Lammy says
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π₯ Usuarios: It's not clickbait βView full AI summary: https://killbait.com/posts/post/7d9f0d9b-9a5e-4c53-9da1-9373c610c218
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Nearly a decade ago David Lammy wrote a review of the judicial system that concluded judge only trials were skewed against non-white defendants; now these findings have been used to argue that Lammy should review the danger of increasing racism in the judicial system throughout his planned reduction in jury trials..... which in fairness he had agreed to do (latterly)
Its also an index of how being in Govt. shifts one's priorities, I guess.
#politics #RuleOfLaw #JuryTrials
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"Palestine Action protesters cleared of Elbit burglary"
Hurrah for jury trials. No wonder the government wants to take them away.
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David Lammy's plans to limit jury trials will do little to reduce the backlog in the justice system as the Institute of Government predicts that the measure will save only around 2% of time in Crown Courts.
Of course the *would* very slowly rescue the backlog but its hardly a 'silver bullet'.
Rather the key intervention would be investment to increase capacity & work to improve productivity, but that would take time & money...
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As (once again) having announced a proposal (for the second time a restriction on jury trials), the Govt. is looking for ways to 'soften' David Lammy's most recent version of the plan to reduce the backlog of trials by cutting back on the option for defendant to elect to have a jury... we might (again) ask:
how does the Govt., keeping finding itself in the position of having to shift position in light of opposition, that takes few outside Govt. by surprise?
#politics #JuryTrials
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I mean, what the actual fuck is this? You telling me Labour voters are ok with this?
#DavidLammy #Christofascism #ClanOfPaedophiles #JuryTrials #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Labour #Quisling
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#Labour's #jury plans condemned by lawyers across UK, Ireland
UK #Justice Secretary #Lammy wants to limit #JuryTrials
βThe Four Bars are deeply concerned that the #UK Govt planning to restrict the right to a #jury #trial in #England & #Wales
- βBeing tried by a jury of oneβs peers is a fundamental cornerstone of the criminal #justice system in our respective jurisdictionsβ
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25729633.labours-jury-plans-condemned-lawyers-across-uk-ireland/
#ToxicLabour #DemocracyNOW #HumanRights #authoritarian #Orwellian #1984 #dictatorship
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Restricting #JuryTrials
"It will make only a marginal difference to the problem it seeks to solve.
"But it is fair to suppose that the main motive for the change is increasing the power of the state at the expense of the people by stripping out a check on the power of the Establishment."MPs are right to rebel over jury plans | Morning Star
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-are-right-rebel-over-jury-plans -
It's almost like the Leadership are at odds with the membership and many of their own MPs, isn't it?
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/18/jury-scrapping-plans-are-madness-labour-mps-tell-starmer
#Labour #Starmer #KeirStarmer #JuryTrials #UKLaw #UKPOLITICS #UKPOL
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Starmer faces mutiny as Rayner joins Labour rebellion against reforms | Politics | News
The Prime Minister is facing greater opposition as a former member of his Cabinet backs a coup againstβ¦
#NewsBeep #News #UnitedKingdom #AngelaRayner #GB #GreatBritain #judiciaryreforms #jurytrials #Labourrebellion #ReformUK #UK
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/314402/ -
βNatalie Streckerβs Acquittal on βTerroristβ Charges Is A Victory for Palestine Solidarity & a Setback to the Attempts to Criminalise Activistsβ
by veteran UK anti-Zionist campaigner in his latest blogpost
βNow We Need to Build Support for the Hunger Strikers & Defeat Lammyβs Attempts to Abolish Juriesβ
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/12/natalie-streckers-acquittal-on.html
#Press #UK #PalAction #Proscription #Terrorism #Strecker #Acquittal #Lammy #JuryTrials #Filton24 #HungerStrikers
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@Kerplunk That's my analysis, certainly. I don't believe that #JuryTrials can add very much to the costs of the #CriminalJustice system, and they certainly can't add anything to the delays. See this thread:
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My Wife and I met up with my Ma for a nice lunch in Covent Garden and also laughed at how two faced David Lammy is.
#DavidLammy #Lammy #JuryTrials #RightToAppeal #UKLaw #Justice #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS
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"Stella Creasy, the MP for Walthamstow, said jury trials only accounted for 3% of cases, asking how much difference curbing them would make. βItβs hard to see how this measure β¦ will address that backlog,β she said."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-jury-trials-cuts-labour-mps-peers
#UKLaw #DavidLammy #SexualAssault #JuryTrials #DefendOurJuries #Justice #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS
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No jury trials for Sexual Assault?
Just going to let some old dude make the decision on that are we?#Misogyny #Patriarchy #UKLaw #DavidLammy #SexualAssault #JuryTrials #DefendOurJuries #Justice #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS
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"David Lammy's Massive Mistake"
This is about Jury Nullification, isn't it? It's about allowing the Rich to predate on us with no way to protest back.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-jury-trials-cuts-labour-mps-peers
#DavidLammy #Lammy #UKLaw #JuryTrials #PalestineAction #DefendOurJuries #FreeSpeech
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So why did Lammy dismiss the Leveson plan and go with his own? Is he that desperate to save the Government embarrassment from Palestine Action style jury trials?
Is UKGOV intent on destroying itself to protect Israel?
#Lammy #JuryTrials #UKLaw #Austerity #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #PalestineAction #Israel #LawSocietyOfEngland&Wales
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This is all David Lammy's choice....
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Plaid Cymru are not fooled either
#PlaidCymru #LizSavilleRoberts #Lammy #JuryTrials #UKLaw #Austerity #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS
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"We shall follow the Russian model (incidentally where domestic abuse isn't illegal)"
#UKLaw #Lammy #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #JuryTrials #Justice #Russia #RichardBurgon
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With things like this you have to ask yourself, "are you comfortable with Reform UK deciding who gets a jury trial and who doesn't?"
Lammy is an enabler for Fascism
#UKLaw #JuryTrials #Labour #Lammy #ReformUK #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Justice
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It's not immediately obvious to me that scrapping jury trials will clear the court backlog.
What is obvious to me, however, is that scrapping jury trials will make it much easier to secure convictions of people accused of breaking crazy authoritarian laws that no group of 12 reasonable people would ever agree should be illegal in the first place, like peacefully holding up a placard.
I wonder what the government's main motivation is here?
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Jury trials literally cannot be driving the backlog in the criminal justice system β everyone else in the courtroom has to be there whether or not there's a jury.
They cannot be a significant driver of costs, either β sure, 24 bus fares and 12 pub lunches isn't nothing, but it doesn't add up to the cost of employing a single court clerk.
Politicians seeking to do away with #JuryTrials are being dishonest about their reasons.
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Jurors aren't paid: they get travel (not much, by definition they're local) and subsistence (again, not much β a pub lunch per day each, at most). Selecting jurors is just a lottery system, so very easily automated. Deal with jurors being objected to, or pleading excuses, can be dealt with by the automated system in advance.
No-shows on the day can be dealt with by inviting a percentage of extra jurors.
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