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Should the jury trial be abolished?
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Should the jury trial be abolished? Introduction In order to decide whether or not trial by jury should or should not be abolished, we need to know what it is that we are dealing with and what viable alternative or alternatives there are to it. I will take a brief look at the history of the jury trial. I will examine the function of the jury and look at what is good and bad about the jury system. Finally I will examine the proposed alternatives to trial by jury that are currently in fashion. Background The jury system first arrived in Britain after the Norman Conquest. The earliest jury was a body of neighbours summoned by a public officer to give oath as answer to some question. The sworn inquest was used to enable the recognition on oath of a number of upstanding members of the community to testify...
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