If you want to understand the underlying reason that the Govt. (in the person of David Lammy) wants to restrict trial by jury, don't take the claims it will resolve the courts backlog too seriously (even Lammy admits it will have only a small effect over time), look at what juries often do.... which is not just take prosecutors claims at face value!

Yup, they're unreliable in the exercise of political repression & so need to be removed!

#politics #protest #TrialByJury

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yrlp…

Jury fails to decide if former University of Sussex student supported Hamas

Hanin Barghouthi was accused of supporting the proscribed organisation during a speech in Brighton.

^{Joshua Askew (BBC News)}