How do criminal courts work without juries around the world?

<p>US defendants can waive right to jury trial and in Germany jury trials were abolished in 1924</p><p>One of the most significant recommendations in a review of the criminal courts in England and Wales, expected to be published this week, is likely to be the scrapping of jury trials for certain offences.</p><p>The idea in Sir Brian Leveson’s independent inquiry is that it will help reduce the record backlog in the courts. But for many the right to a jury trial, except for the most minor offences, is synonymous with the right to a fair trial and watering it down would be hugely controversial.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul/09/how-do-criminal-courts-work-without-juries-around-the-world">Continue reading...</a>