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Do not remove trial by jury for most crimes

Submitted on Saturday 29th November 2025

Rejected on Wednesday 7th January 2026

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Do not remove trial by jury for most crimes

Petition Details

To ensure fair trials we cannot accept the proposal to remove the requirement for trial by jury for most criminal trials.

Additional Information

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.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

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" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751480

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