'If not this, then what?' Ex-judge defends controversial jury plans

Sir Brian Leveson, who conducted the independent review of the courts system that guided the government's decision to reduce on jury trials, has suggested there is no alternative.

The crimes now most likely to be decided without a jury

The government has announced the right to a jury trial will be limited to only those facing a likely sentence of more than three years.

Damning report finds failures in collapse of China spy trial

"Systematic failures" led to the Chinese spy case collapsing - and there's a risk they could be repeated, a parliamentary inquiry has said.

Reeves hit by Labour rebellion

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has suffered another budget blow with a rebellion by rural Labour MPs over inheritance tax on farmers.

'It wasn't fine - and the Russians knew': Inside the decades-long saga that's left UK shockingly unprepared for war

The UK is "really unprepared" to fight a war and has been living on a "mirage" of military strength that was shocking to discover, interviews with almost every defence secretary since the end of the Cold War have revealed.

Jury trials will be scrapped for defendants facing sentences of three years or less

Defendants who will likely get a sentence of three years or less will no longer get a jury trial, the justice secretary has announced.


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