An exception is when a jury is asked to recommend either execution or life in prison in murder cases punishable by death.
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Michael Mansfield QC, representing Mr Duggan's family, expressed the family's frustration that it will be almost two years after the killing that the full facts around his death are heard by a jury.
But the Fraud (Trials Without A Jury) Bill died a death after being blocked in the House of Lords by peers who felt the right to a jury trial was sacrosanct.