Sources suggest, Jonathan Ames reports cautiously in today’s Times, that — “next month” — the Ministry of Justice could “bring in a law that would allow judge-only trials in some circumstances”.
As Ames explains, the justice secretary Robert Buckland had previously suggested that some middle-ranking cases currently heard by juries in England and Wales sh…
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