Mr Straw, who served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair and Justice Secretary in Gordon Brown’s government, first proposed the radical change while in government. But it was torpedoed by a ...

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Labour grandee Jack Straw has called for thousands of defendants each year to be stripped of their right to elect a jury trial. Mr Straw, who served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair and Justice ...

Labour grandee Jack Straw has called for thousands of defendants each year to be stripped of their right to elect a jury trial. Mr Straw, who served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair and Justice ...

Jack Straw has said. Mr Straw, one of Labour’s most senior politicians, and a former home, foreign and justice secretary, said the right was a “ridiculous anomaly”. He said it enabled ...

The government should scrap the right of defendants to choose trial by jury for some mid-range offences, former justice secretary Jack Straw has said. He branded laws allowing someone on trial to ...

The government should scrap the right of defendants to choose trial by jury for some mid-range offences, former justice secretary Jack Straw has said. He branded laws allowing someone on trial to ...

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Former Justice Secretary Jack Straw claimed it was a ‘ridiculous anomaly’ that some defendants can demand their cases be heard in crown courts rather than more quickly in front of magistrates.

Jack Straw, the former Justice Secretary, is now arguing that defendants should be stripped of the right to elect a Crown Court jury trial, something he tried and failed to do 25 years ago when in ...