The countries around the world without jury trials

A bedrock of the English justice system is the right to be judged by a group of your peers – a jury. But it is far from the norm worldwide.

As the backlog in the criminal courts continues to impede justice, the government is under pressure to come up with solutions – a task given to a former judge, Brian Leveson. His recommendations include removing the right to be tried by a jury of peers in certain cases. "I don't rejoice in these recommendations, but I do believe they're absolutely essential," he wrote.