Has David Lammy been watching Judge Judy?

[Spartacus]

BBC News - Deputy PM David Lammy set to announce jury trial reforms - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg1q62jmv0o

Edited 5 hours ago by Spartacus

[Sue]

But "expected to back down on plans to scrap most jury trials"

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Edited 4 hours ago by Sue

[vladi]

If Lammy had a jury trial for incompetence he would be convicted beyond any reasonable doubt.

[Spartacus]

Is it the lack of people doing jury service, or lack of judges and court rooms that slows down trials ? 

Personally I think its the latter but wjay doni know ? 

 

[alice]

Something has to change when young rape victims have to wait years for a trial. 
 

[HeadNun]

16 minutes ago, Spartacus said:

Is it the lack of people doing jury service, or lack of judges and court rooms that slows down trials ? 

Personally I think its the latter but wjay doni know ? 

 

I think it's lack of avail courtrooms, poor facilities, equipment not working, defendants not turning up... a whole range of problems caused my chronic underfunding. 

[Spartacus]

20 minutes ago, alice said:

Something has to change when young rape victims have to wait years for a trial. 
 

No one is doubting that Alice, but is this the right way ? 

[Sephiroth]

3 hours ago, Sue said:

But "expected to back down on plans to scrap most jury trials"

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Not looking great so far 

I don’t rate Lammy that much, I think people on here have touched on the many many problems years of underfunding the justice system have made us reach this point   - but these proposals would be problematic even if they were effective in tackling the problem.   Which - based on anyone I know involved in the legal system - they won’t 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-courts-law-starmer-labour-reeves-budget-obr-uk-politics-live-news-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[Spartacus]

Could this be his inspiration.

He is the LAW 

[Sephiroth]

Is that a McManus Dredd drawing? He was great 

but on topic - it’s an overreach which takes too much and gives too little 

[jazzer]

 

[Sephiroth]

I know we are off topic here 

 

but the Stallone 95 movie is awful 

the Dredd movie from 2012 is fantastic