By Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst

After admitting on national television this morning that twelve prisoners were mistakenly released from jail in the past month, with two remaining at large, David Lammy faced Parliament today to defend his decision to scrap jury trials for most crimes.

Apparently this is the balm that washes away all the problems in our justice system - a system which, for too long, has been dogged by underinvestment by successive governments.

The Government will, in line with the ordered review by retired senior judge Sir Brian Leveson, scrap juries for offences carrying sentences of up to three years, all in the name of ‘clearing the backlog’.

It is no exaggeration to ask whether the Lord Chancellor’s announcement marks the beginning of a slow erosion of a........

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