Advantages & Disadvantages - Juries

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Advantage - Public confidence
- long established system
- jury is considered as a fundamental requirement of a democratic society
- Lord Devlin: 'the lamp that shows that freedom lives'
- Micheal Mansfield: 'the jury is the most democratic element of out judicial system
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Advantages - Jury equity
- decision based on fairness; no reason given.
Case names
- R v Ponting (1985) - jury refused to convict when his defence was that he acted in public interest
- R v Kronlid (1996) - jury refused to convict when defence was lawful excuse
- R v Randle a
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Advantage - Open justice
- trial in public
- explaining issues to jury will help D understand law and process
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Advantage - Impartiality
- Jury free of pressure in making decisions
- members of jury not connected to the case
- members of jury will not be case-hardened
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Advantage - Representative nature
- Due to random selection, there will be a wide range of ages and backgrounds - means jury will be representative
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- decision based on fairness; no reason given.
Case names
- R v Ponting (1985) - jury refused to convict when his defence was that he acted in public interest
- R v Kronlid (1996) - jury refused to convict when defence was lawful excuse
- R v Randle a

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Advantages - Jury equity

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- trial in public
- explaining issues to jury will help D understand law and process

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Card 4

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- Jury free of pressure in making decisions
- members of jury not connected to the case
- members of jury will not be case-hardened

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Card 5

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- Due to random selection, there will be a wide range of ages and backgrounds - means jury will be representative

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