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'Trial by jury is an outdated, expensive and inefficient method by which to decide the guilt or innocence of those charged with criminal offences. It should be abolished for all criminal trials'.
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'Trial by jury is an outdated, expensive and inefficient method by which to decide the guilt or innocence of those charged with criminal offences. It should be abolished for all criminal trials'. Trial by jury has been regarded as a paradigm of English criminal law, described as a bulwark against oppression, a safeguard of our liberties since the common sense of the ordinary person prevails when all else fails1. The reality may be very different, there is scepticism about a clearly expensive jury system. The competence of jurors, the professional classes evading jury duty easily, and the number of miscarriages of justice has lead to questioning of the suitability of this system. This essay will focus on whether the government's concern about trial by jury being an outdated, expensive and inefficient method, to decide the guilt or innocence of those charged with criminal offences, is well-founded and whether trial by jury...
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