January 21, 2026
“Resolution of the criminal justice crisis does not lie in reheating old ideas that have been roundly rejected before”
In the latest January issue of Counsel Magazine, Ed Vickers KC, Faras Baloch and Katie Bacon deliver a critique of the Lammy proposals to abolish jury trials in serious and complex fraud cases.
They argue that removing juries is not the solution to the current criminal justice crisis. Drawing on the findings of the Leveson Review and wider commentary—including critiques published in the RLC’s Focus on Fraud blog—they emphasise that the system’s problems stem from under‑resourcing, delays and structural inefficiencies- not from juries themselves.
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