Putting up a defence for jury trials in Britain | Letters

Bob Marshall-Andrews, Francis FitzGibbon and another reader respond to an article by Simon Jenkins on ditching trial by jurySimon Jenkins’ indictment of jury trial (Here’s a radical way to save England’s collapsing justice system: get rid of juries, 5 May) deserves a damning verdict on a number of counts. He points to the excessive delays afflicting English criminal courts, which he attributes to the 1% of cases that are decided by juries. He provides little evidence for this,