The importance of preserving the jury system and the right of election for trial

Criminal Law Review

Volumn 1997, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 875-879

  Houlder Q C , Bruce ^a  

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References (10)

1. Although this article is, in part, a response to Penny Darbyshire's article on "Importance and Neglect of the Magistracy" [1997] Crim.L.R. 627, I am happy to accept her assurance that she is not "anti-jury".
2. Review of Delay in the Criminal Justice System, Home Office, February 1997.
3. A description attached by Darbyshire [1997] Crim.L.R. 627 to an article I wrote in The Guardian, February 18, 1997, criticising the over-politicisation of the law's process. My support for the maintenance of the system was not intended to be a polemic, but a thought provoking article designed to encourage reaction. I am flattered that Darbyshire reacts to these views again in this issue.
4. Darbyshire [1997] Crim.L.R. 627 at 642.
5. The Distribution of the Criminal Business between the Crown Courts and the Magistrates' Courts: Report of the Interdepartmental Committee 1975.
6. See [1997] Crim.L.R. 627 where Darbyshire refers to the extremes of the American experience in protracted trials, and the disappearance of jury trial elsewhere because of its expense. These should be cautionary tales, but surely trial management and self-discipline are possible without abandoning the system altogether.
7. The Times, July 16, 1993.
8. Acknowledgment is due to Richard Carey-Hughes of 4 Brick Court, Temple for his assistance in illuminating this statistical flaw.
9. "The Lamp that Shows that Freedom Lives - Is it Worth the Candle?" [1991] Crim.L.R. 741.
10. See [1991] Crim.L.R. 740 at 749.