Rejected petition: Ensure the right to a trial by jury by your peers continues
Rejected on
Debate why trials need to be undertaken with only a Judge and not with a jury of your peers.
Many cases where the public have viewed the decisions made by Judges to be neither consistent or balanced raise genuine concerns regarding impartiality when applying the law
Justice has been served by trial by Jury for almost a thousand years & must continue
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Do not remove trial by jury for certain cases
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751480We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.