If today’s proposal to curtail jury trials goes ahead, it should only be as an emergency measure with an end date.

More details on the proposal here: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov... (3/3)

Juries represent the diversity of society and deliver more equal outcomes – for example, as the Deputy Prime Minister found in his Lammy Review, Black and Chinese women are found guilty at much higher rates than white women by magistrates but not by juries (2/3)

Reviewing refugee status every 30 months will add avoidable distress & pile pressure on the appeal system. Courts have held fast-track appeals to be systemically unfair before.

These plans risk hindering integration & increasing bureaucracy instead of fixing problems (5/5)

Politicians and the press must also be honest: the ECHR’s impact on immigration is often overstated — more lottery millionaires are created each year than foreign national offenders who win appeals on human-rights grounds alone, for example (4/5)

Any domestic or international reform must be careful not to destabilise the ECHR system of rights. The Government already has legal flexibility to balance Article 8 (family life) with other concerns, including for foreign national offenders (3/5)

We can & must find solutions to these challenges while upholding the rights & dignity of all, including asylum-seekers & refugees

The govt is right to reaffirm commitment to the ECHR & HRA. These rights protect ordinary people daily, from rape survivors to care home residents (2/5)

It sets out a blueprint for improving decision-making in Magistrates’ Courts to:

📉 Reverse this over-use of pre-trial detention

🫱🏻‍🫲🏾 Increase the diversity of the magistracy, &

⚖️ Improve fairness overall.

Read more: bit.ly/4nscTjX (3/3)

JUSTICE previously found evidence showing people are being imprisoned awaiting trial without proper legal reasons given for holding them.

Our new report outlines urgent reforms to address these problems. (2/3)

JUSTICE urges Peers to support Lord Vaux’s amendments, to i) restrict the use of force to things, not people in the Bill itself, or ii) remove it entirely. (4/4)

Read more: justice.org.uk/briefings/pu...