Petitions tagged with "Jury"

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Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.

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• Review the law on unfit to plead & reform it to protect victims & public safety
  Opened on Friday 8th May 2026
  651 signatures so far

• Mandatory 50% female jury representation for trials of rape & violence vs women
  Opened on Tuesday 24th March 2026
  403 signatures so far

• Require all new magistrates to hold a law degree or independent legal experience
  Opened on Wednesday 11th February 2026
  50 signatures so far

• Nationalise public utilities & set up a committee of the public to oversee them
  Opened on Thursday 22nd January 2026
  156 signatures so far

• Introduce mandatory filming of all non-jury court proceedings in England & Wales
  Opened on Tuesday 13th January 2026
  59 signatures so far

• Hold a referendum on planned changes to trial by jury
  Opened on Monday 12th January 2026
  186 signatures so far

• Do not remove trial by jury for certain cases
  Opened on Thursday 18th December 2025
  8,561 signatures so far

• Change the legal age of consent to intercourse to 18
  Opened on Friday 12th December 2025
  134 signatures so far

• Replace juries for domestic abuse and homicide cases with professional panels
  Opened on Tuesday 9th December 2025
  25 signatures so far

• Review consent law to protect neurodivergent people from miscarriages of justice
  Opened on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  385 signatures so far

• Don't reduce the number of trials by jury
  Open from Monday 17th February 2025 to Sunday 17th August 2025
  212 signatures

• Introduce a trained jury
  Open from Thursday 30th January 2025 to Wednesday 30th July 2025
  30 signatures

• Introduce juries in family courts
  Open from Monday 6th January 2025 to Sunday 6th July 2025
  68 signatures

• Legally require unanimous jury verdicts for serious offences.
  Open from Wednesday 11th December 2024 to Wednesday 11th June 2025
  285 signatures

• Increase the allowances claimable by jurors
  Open from Friday 23rd September 2022 to Thursday 23rd March 2023
  17 signatures

• Excuse survivors of domestic and sexual violence from jury service for life
  Open from Monday 13th June 2022 to Tuesday 27th December 2022
  15 signatures

• Review the role of juries in rape trials.
  Open from Friday 1st April 2022 to Saturday 15th October 2022
  299 signatures

• Make it the law that employers have to pay employees when on Jury Service.
  Open from Wednesday 22nd September 2021 to Tuesday 22nd March 2022
  46 signatures

• Allow parents to be exempt from Jury Service
  Open from Monday 29th March 2021 to Wednesday 29th September 2021
  11 signatures

• Give breastfeeding mothers to a right to defer/be excused from jury duty
  Open from Thursday 25th February 2021 to Wednesday 25th August 2021
  2,001 signatures

• Temporarily exempt NHS frontline staff from being required to do jury service
  Open from Friday 22nd January 2021 to Thursday 22nd July 2021
  322 signatures

• Independent body to adjudicate on compliance with the Ministerial Code
  Open from Wednesday 2nd December 2020 to Wednesday 2nd June 2021
  22,295 signatures

• Accept HND or Jury Service as proof of English for British Citizenship.
  Open from Wednesday 2nd December 2020 to Wednesday 2nd June 2021
  112 signatures

• Require courts to allow Victim Witness Statements to be read out in court
  

• Require criminal trial juries to provide reasons using a verdict questionnaire
  Opened on
  6 signatures so far

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