Coming up, the Justice Secretary announced his plans to cut back on jury trials to deal with the backlog in the courts.

But should we be limiting the right to be tried by your peers, and will it even work?

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For more than 800 years, the right to trial by jury has been a feature of English law.

In fact, it's much more than that. It's been a fundamental principle of the criminal justice system from the year 1215 and the signing of Magna Carta.

But fast forward to the present day and we find courts that are frankly unfit for purpose. A backlog of the best part of a

hundred thousand cases is clogging up the system, meaning people are waiting years for justice.

Which is why Justice Secretary David Lamy, himself a barrister, is proposing a seismic shift in how they operate.

His focus is on so-called either-way offences, ones which can be heard either by magistrates or the Crown Court.

If the sentence is likely to be less than three years, in future, they'll only be tried by magistrates or judges.

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