questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of criminal trials involved a jury in each of the last ten years.
answerText: Only 3% of all cases were heard by a jury in the year to June 2025. This is based on the number of not guilty pleas as a proportion of all cases for trial, excluding Single Justice Procedure cases. Over 90% of criminal cases are heard in the magistrates’ ...
heading: Juries