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Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick says the government must not scrap jury trials and instead protect the "ancient right that we've enjoyed in this country for at least 800 years". The Conservative frontbencher says Justice Secretary David Lammy should instead look at having courts "sitting round the clock" and use all available court sitting days that are offered by the judiciary. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We don't want to see an ancient right that we've enjoyed in this country for at least 800 years
00:05be cast aside because of administrative failure to cut the backlog.
00:09There is a better way. Let's get the court sitting round the clock.
00:12Let's take advantage of all of the sitting days that the senior judiciary have offered the government.
00:18Bear down on the court backlog, but protect jury trials for future generations.
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