Jury advantages and disadvantages - Advantages and disadvantages table in A Level and IB Law

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Created on: 09-05-13 18:17

Jury advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

Helps with public confidence, Magna Carter the right to be trialed by ones peers.
Secrey of jury, everything inside the room has to stay secreat.
Fair choice as the jurors are not allowed to take any sides of both parties.

Disadvantages

People may be forced into becoming a juror, whether they want to or not.
Some cases may have disturbing evidence which may effect the jurors when giving the verdict e.g. Baby P
Preverse verdicts, jurors may make the wrong decision without knowing at the time e.g Randle v Pottle

Evaluation

Jury are people who have been randomly selected by the electric register to come to the court and decide on the facts of a case, along with 11 other people (12 altogether) and everyone has to attend even judges.

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