Advantages & Disadvantages of jury
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- Created on: 12-05-17 18:48
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- Advantages & Disadvantages of Jury
- Advantages
- Public confidence/by one's peers
- 'Trial by Jury is the lamp that shows freedom lives' Lord Devlin
- 'Trials by jury are the hear and lungs of liberty' John Adams
- 'The most democratic element of our judicial system' Michael Mansfield QC
- Jury Equity
- Paintings case
- Provides open system of justice
- Verdicts by society rather than judicial system
- Secrecy of Jury Room
- Contempt of Court Act 1981
- The impartiality
- Sir Sebag Shaw 'They are anonymous'
- Panel of 12 fairer than 1 person making a decision
- Public confidence/by one's peers
- Disadvantages
- Compulsory nature
- The Media influence
- R v West
- R v Taylor & Taylor
- Distressing Nature of certain evidence
- University of Leicester = many find the experience stressful and are traumatized and not just by the graphic evidence they see/hear
- Lee Rigby Trial
- Baby P
- Jurors can be based
- Sander v Uk
- Can give excessive damages in civil cases
- However a new trial can be ordered or sum can be substituted
- Teresa Gorman MP and Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspaper 1993
- However a new trial can be ordered or sum can be substituted
- Perverse verdicts can occur
- Randle & Pottle
- Secrecy of the jury room
- R v Young
- R v Karakaya
- R v Mirza
- Advantages
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