“Forty years ago this week, a trial started which exposed heavy-handed police tactics in Notting Hill and changed racial justice in the UK forever.”
The Guardian, 29th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The judge’s proposals on criminal trials are a dangerous attack on the jury system. I hope he won’t prevail.”
The Guardian, 24th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Annual Law Reform Lecture: Summing Down the Summing-Up – Speech by Lord Justice Moses, 23rd November 2010.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 23rd November 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“It is five years since the jurors filed back into the Old Bailey to give their verdict in what has become known as the ‘ricin plot’ trial. After a six-month trial, 17 days of deliberations, and an estimated £20m of taxpayers’ money, four defendants were acquitted and the fifth was found guilty of the lesser charge of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.”
The Guardian, 13th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Judges are ‘giving up’ trying to stop juries using Google, Facebook and Twitter to access potentially false and prejudicial information about defendants, Sir Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, has warned.”
The Guardian, 4th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“As a former Welsh international and captain of League One side Plymouth Argyle, professional footballer Carl Fletcher obviously felt he had joined the ranks of the celebrity VIP. So when he was called to perform jury service he fully expected to be afforded star treatment and excused from sitting. But when he tried to explain to a judge why it was inappropriate for him to be called, he was informed in no uncertain terms that he simply was not famous enough to get special dispensation.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“It has been decreed that the ban on over-70s doing jury duty will remain. But many older people would welcome the opportunity.”
BBC News, 10th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Council of Circuit Judges, which represents more than 600 judges in England and Wales, said it had come to the ‘firm conclusion that there is no compelling case to alter the status quo’.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th August 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The lord chief justice emphasised the importance of trial by jury last week as the Court of Appeal overturned two High Court decisions that trials could proceed without a jury.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 29th July 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Responses to Ministry of Justice consultation.”
Judiciary of England of Wales, 21st July 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The collective responsibility of the jury was not confined to the verdict. It began as soon as the members of the jury had been sworn. From that moment onwards, there was a collective responsibility for ensuring that the conduct of each member was consistent with the jury oath and that the directions of the trial judge about the discharge of their responsibilities were followed.”
WLR Daily, 15th July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A teenager was told by a judge today that she had ‘let down her generation’ by jeopardising two trials after sending text messages to another jury member while on jury service.”
The Guardian, 13h July 2010
Fiddes v Channel Four Television Corporation and others [2010] EWCA Civ 730; [2010] WLR (D) 163
“Observations on the applicable principles as to whether there should be a trial by jury or trial by judge alone in a libel action were made by the Court of Appeal.”
WLR Daily, 30th June 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The government today launched a consultation on raising the upper age limit for jury service in England and Wales.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th March 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Criminals are escaping justice because of a lack of organisation within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), a judge said.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th March 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two out of three jurors do not fully understand the legal directions given to them by judges when they retire to consider their verdicts, according to a report for the Ministry of Justice.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Juries in England and Wales have been found to be fair, effective and efficient by the most in-depth study into the issue ever undertaken in this country, published today.”
Ministry of Justice, 17th February 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
R v Carter (David) [2010] WLR (D) 29
“Where a member of the jury had to be discharged, at whatever stage of the trial, there was no requirement that the remaining members of the jury be directed to ignore the views expressed on any subject by the departed juror.”
WLR Daily, 10th February 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Juries are a fundamental pillar of our justice system. But many believe that jurors are now routinely accessing and distributing so much prejudicial information online, that the very integrity of the system is in danger.”
The Guardian, 26th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers are facing demands to scrap an ‘unfair and discriminatory’ law that bans thousands from being jurors because they have suffered from mental ill-health.”
The Guardian, 10th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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