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Trial by jury

April 2024

  • Courtroom sketch of one man whispering to another.

    Trump on Trial newsletter
    Trump on Trial: ‘We have our jury’

    After hours of jury selection in former president Donald Trump’s first criminal case, presiding Judge Juan Merchan had good news

March 2024

  • Simon Jenkins

    Like a pub argument on Love Island – The Jury TV series shows all that’s wrong with Britain’s judicial system

    Simon Jenkins
    The level of debate was like a saloon bar shouting match. But all juries need reform, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

April 2023

  • Former advice columnist E Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court.

    ‘Fear and shame’: jury hears opening arguments in Trump civil assault trial

    Writer E Jean Carroll is suing former president for battery and defamation for allegedly assaulting her at a store in 1996

November 2021

  • ‘Even racists deserve a fair trial, but in the interest of avoiding one type of injustice, the court cannot enable another’

    No, Black jurors aren’t ‘biased’ when it comes to shootings of Black people

    Sonali Chakravarti
    When Black jurors are eliminated from the jury pool, justice suffers

October 2021

  • A protester held a “guilty” sign outside the courthouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Derek Chauvin was on trial.

    ‘I had a big gasp’: George Floyd jurors speak on the trial, the video and the verdict

    In a CNN interview, seven jurors reflect on the trauma of seeing the cellphone recording and how they arrived at their decision

June 2021

  • From left: Nathaniel Williams, Durrell Goodall and Reanu Walters

    One death, 11 jailed teenagers: was a Moss Side murder trial racist?

    In 2017, 11 Manchester teenagers were jailed for a total of 168 years for their part in a killing. Now three are appealing amid claims that the investigation and trials were riddled with racism

April 2021

  • An empty crown court

    Lawyers counsel against ‘virtual hearings’ to tackle backlog of cases

    ‘Expression, atmosphere and manner’ cannot be assessed via video link, warn experts in response to crime bill

September 2020

  • FW Pomeroy’s statue of Lady Justice atop the central criminal court building at the Old Bailey, London.

    Trial delays and the long wait for justice

    Letter: In response to news that the custody time limit is being extended, retired barrister Michael Conry writes of the delays between an alleged offender’s arrest and first court appearance

June 2020

  • FW Pomeroy’s Statue of Lady Justice atop the Central Criminal Court building at the Old Bailey, London.

    Jury trials are crucial to our justice system

    Letter: Barrister Andrew Vout argues that the backlog of court cases due to the Covid-19 crisis must not be used as an excuse to restrict trial by jury

May 2020

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hugs his wife Sara after first exit poll results for the Israeli elections at his party’s headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March. 2, 2020

    Netanyahu in the dock: image of Israeli PM on trial may haunt him for ever

    If convicted on corruption charges, country’s longest-serving leader could be sentenced to more than a decade in jail

April 2020

  • A jury summons letter

    Non-jury trials could help clear coronavirus backlog, says QC

    Geoffrey Robertson recommends Australian model allowing defendants to opt for trial by judge only

March 2020

  • Alex Salmond surrounded by police

    Alex Salmond's trial: what will happen and how it will be reported

    Scotland’s former first minister is facing a series of sexual assault charges in Edinburgh

November 2018

  • A statue of the scales of justice stands above the Old Bailey, London.

    Scrapping juries in rape trials risks rise in miscarriages of justice

    Hannah Quirk
    There is no evidence that juries are failing their duty, says criminal law reader Hannah Quirk

August 2018

  • Geoffrey Robertson

    Put cameras in British courtrooms, and make justice truly transparent

    Geoffrey Robertson
    You only have to look at Grenfell, legal aid cuts and the Tommy Robinson case to see how beneficial televised trials would be, writes Geoffrey Robertson QC

July 2018

  • Our justice system is supposed to serve society as it grows and changes

    Juries are often prejudiced, just like society. Should we get rid of them?

    Bri Lee
    Getting rid of juries would give some relief to victims of sexual assault, but it wouldn’t solve the real problem

April 2018

  • Bill Cosby sexual assault retrial, Norristown, USA - 24 Apr 2018<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michael Candelori/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock (9641226g) Actor Bill Cosby arrives, along with his wife Camille Cosby and spokesman Andew Wyatt, for closing arguments in his retrial on sexual assault charges. Bill Cosby sexual assault retrial, Norristown, USA - 24 Apr 2018

    Bill Cosby's lawyers attack accusers and 'silly evidence' in closing arguments

    Defense claims Cosby, 80, was an innocent man caught up in the ‘emotion and anger’ of the #MeToo movement

March 2018

  • Some of the toys a registered intermediary will use to assess children’s communication.

    Public servant: my letter to the public
    Vulnerable people won't get a fair hearing without support in court

    Esther Rumble
    The lack of funding for registered intermediaries means they can help only a tiny percentage through the justice system

November 2016

  • A jury summons

    Age limit for jurors to rise to 75 from December

    Change announced two years ago to go ahead next month, adding 3 million people to available pool of jurors

October 2016

  • Attorney general Jeremy Wright

    Law concerning use of sexual history in rape trials 'could be reformed'

    Attorney general Jeremy Wright says worries raised by MPs about nature of evidence used in high-profile retrial of Ched Evans are legitimate

August 2016

  • Gun and slow-motion bullet

    Shortcuts
    How slow-motion video footage misleads juries

    New research in the US suggests that slowed-down footage can make jurors more likely to think the actions of a subject were deliberate or premeditated
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