Rejected petition: Do not remove trial by jury for most crimes
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To ensure fair trials we cannot accept the proposal to remove the requirement for trial by jury for most criminal trials.
A trial by jury is critical to ensuring a fair trial, and is one of the key foundations of our judicial system.
To remove this for the majority of trials would severely undermine the system and lead to a significant increase in wrongful convictions.
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 this petition, which calls for similar action: "Do not remove trial by jury for certain cases" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751480
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.