Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 98472

Juries

Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 17 December 2025

Question

Wendy Morton

ConservativeAldridge-Brownhills

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Written Statement entitled Criminal Court Reform, published on 2 December 2025, HCWS1123, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of expanding judge-only trials to a wider class

Answer

Sarah Sackman
The Government inherited a justice system in crisis, with a record and rising open caseload of nearly 80,000 criminal cases waiting to be heard and too many victims waiting years for justice. One of the first priorities of this Government has been to tack...

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