The right to trial-by-jury must not be reduced
This dangerous proposal should be immediately dropped and the Minister who proposed it should be censured.
Signatures
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Government response threshold (10,000) · 8/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 8/100,000
- 09 JAN 2026Petition rejectedduplicate
You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action: Do not remove trial by jury for certain cases https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751480
- 02 DEC 2025Petition created
Background
The UK government is proposing to throw away one of the defining elements of UK democracy (which is widely respected around world) for the crass reason that it will “reduce the backlog in the courts”. This latter claim is not proven but what is proven is that trial-by-jury is a bulwark against discrimination in the legal system