Analysis: it took Irish courts and legislators until the 1970s to restore women's equal rights to serve on juries For most of ...

On 29 March 2023, a retired social worker from Walthamstow, Trudi Warner, was arrested for standing outside Inner London ...

Instead, they must rely on juries deciding (in rare cases) with their conscience rather than legal direction. This breaches the integrity principle, because juries are not able to decide ...

But the US jury system isn't perfect. For instance, it wasn’t until 1968 that women were allowed to serve on juries in all 50 states. And while it’s been illegal to exclude African Americans ...

The cases include the five-year term being served by Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, and the terms of two years and 20 months handed down to Phoebe Plummer and Anna ...

Having juries means that the “community is represented”, with members of any “race, religion, gender and socio-economic group” brought together to “decide the fate of a fellow citizen ...

Georgia does not give special grand juries indictment powers. In November, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee two Justice Department inquiries into ...

“Juries are the cornerstone of the criminal justice system, and current laws mean that their deliberations must be carried out in absolute secrecy. In fact, to share discussions from within a ...

Juries in all Connecticut sexual assault trials will now be permitted to consider delays in reporting sexual assault allegations to police when weighing the complainant’s credibility ...