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- 1Official / Parliament2 December 2025
Written Ministerial Statement: Criminal Court Reform (HCWS1123)
David Lammy MP, Lord Chancellor — Hansard
The Government's response to the Leveson review.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2025-12-02.hcws1123.h ↗ - 2Official / ParliamentUpdated 15 May 2026
Courts and Tribunals Bill — Parliamentary Bills
UK Parliament
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4083 ↗ - 3Official / ParliamentUpdated 15 May 2026
Courts and Tribunals Bill — official Bills API record (Bill 4083)
UK Parliament Bills API
Authoritative live stage: Commons Report stage as at 15 May 2026.
https://bills-api.parliament.uk/api/v1/Bills/4083 ↗ - 4Official / Parliament2026
Courts and Tribunals Bill: factsheet
Ministry of Justice (GOV.UK)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/courts-and-tribunals-bill/courts-and-tribunals-bill-factsheet ↗ - 5Official / Parliament10 March 2026
Courts and Tribunals Bill: Second Reading — Division 2277 (304–203)
UK Parliament — Commons Votes
https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/2277 ↗ - 6Official / Parliament9 July 2025
Independent Review of the Criminal Courts: Part 1
Ministry of Justice / Sir Brian Leveson (GOV.UK)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-criminal-courts-part-1 ↗ - 7Official / ParliamentJuly 2025
Independent Review of the Criminal Courts: Part 1 — research briefing
House of Commons Library (CDP-2025-0187)
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2025-0187/ ↗ - 8Research9 March 2026
Beyond reasonable doubt? Reviewing proposed reforms to jury trials
Institute for Government — Cassia Rowland
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/reviewing-proposed-reforms-jury-trials ↗ - 9Research11 July 2025
The Leveson review: cutting jury trials is not the only option
Institute for Government — Cassia Rowland
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/leveson-review-courts ↗ - 10Legal profession27 November 2025
Bar leadership joint statement on jury trials
The Bar Council & Circuit Leaders
https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/bar-leadership-joint-statement-on-jury-trials.html ↗ - 11Legal profession10 March 2026
Over 3,200 lawyers call on the Prime Minister to stop the jury trial proposal
The Bar Council
https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/over-3-200-lawyers-including-retired-judges-past-and-present-bar-council-chairs-and-a-former-dpp-call-on-prime-minister-to-stop-jury-trial-proposal.html ↗ - 12Legal profession25 February 2026
Restricting jury trials carries substantial risk and little gain
The Bar Council — Kirsty Brimelow KC, Chair
https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/restricting-jury-trials-carries-substantial-risk-and-little-gain-bar-council.html ↗ - 13Legal profession2 March 2026
Courts and Tribunals Bill 2026 — The CBA's Position
Criminal Bar Association
https://www.criminalbar.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Courts-and-Tribunals-Bill-2026-The-CBAs-Position.pdf ↗ - 14Legal profession2026
CBA responses (hub)
Criminal Bar Association
https://www.criminalbar.com/resources/cba-responses/ ↗ - 15Legal profession24 February 2026
JUSTICE's response to the Government's jury trials announcement
JUSTICE
https://www.justice.org.uk/news/justices-response-to-government-jury-trials-announcement ↗ - 16Legal professionFebruary 2026
Government's jury trial changes are wrong
The Law Society
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/contact-or-visit-us/press-office/press-releases/governments-jury-trial-changes-are-wrong ↗ - 17Press25 February 2026
Society lambasts Lammy on jury reform
The Law Society Gazette
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/society-lambasts-lammy-on-jury-reform/5126003.article ↗ - 18Research2010
Are Juries Fair? (Ministry of Justice Research Series 1/10)
Prof Cheryl Thomas — Ministry of Justice
https://channelmcgilchrist.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Thomas-are-juries-fair.pdf ↗ - 19ResearchOctober 2017
Ethnicity and the Fairness of Jury Trials in England and Wales 2006–2014
Prof Cheryl Thomas KC — UCL Faculty of Laws
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/publications/2017/oct/ethnicity-and-fairness-jury-trials-england-and-wales-2006-2014 ↗ - 20Legal profession2026
Courts and Tribunals Bill 2026: An Analysis
Criminal Law Solicitors' Association
https://www.clsa.co.uk/courts-and-tribunals-bill-2026-an-analysis/ ↗ - 21Official / Parliament3 March 2000
The Criminal Justice (Mode of Trial) (No. 2) Bill — Research Paper 00/23
House of Commons Library
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP00-23/RP00-23.pdf ↗ - 22Official / ParliamentRepealed 1 May 2012
Criminal Justice Act 2003, section 43
legislation.gov.uk
Judge-only complex-fraud trials — never brought into force; repealed by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/44/section/43 ↗ - 23Official / Parliament5 September 2025
Rt Hon David Lammy sworn in as the new Lord Chancellor
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
https://www.judiciary.uk/rt-hon-david-lammy-sworn-in-as-the-new-lord-chancellor/ ↗ - 24Reference1956
Trial by Jury (The Hamlyn Lectures)
Sir Patrick Devlin
Source of the line: “it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.”
Printed reference — no online primary source.
- 25Reference1215
Magna Carta 1215, clause 39
UK Parliament — Living Heritage
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/originsofparliament/birthofparliament/overview/magnacarta/ ↗