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Discuss whether trial by jury should be retained or abolished.
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Discuss whether trial by jury should be retained or abolished Juries have and remain to be a core of our legal system, and evidence of 'trial by peers' can be traced back to 1215. In Bushell's Case (1670) it shows that by the seventeenth century the role of the jury as 'masters of the facts' had been established. In favour of retaining the jury role, it has obviously been used from this length of time without any setback and is the primary function of a criminal case (Crown Court and above) being used successfully for years. In our legal system, a jury trial will always seem to prevail in justice, as put by David Bean QC ex-chairman of the Bar Council, 'the evidence is clear: people trust juries'. As long as laymen are involved in the legal proceedings of a criminal case in some fashion, it proves that our legal system...
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