Don’t Jettison the Jury
Sadie Broda-Bahm is a first-year Politics and International Relations student. She is passionate about comparative legal analysis. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sadie-broda-bahm-907b08310/) Last month, the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Justice David Lammy announced his proposals for sweeping court reform in the midst of a severe judicial backlog. The submitted amendments include limiting the right to a trial by jury and establishing a new tier of “swift courts” to hear cases in which...