Asking about juries
What can we learn from a major study of the Crown Court 33 years ago?
“It is a strange irony,” Professor Michael Zander KC (hon) told me yesterday, “that a study that conveys the best available empirical evidence that trial by jury is fit for purpose becomes generally available at a time when trial by jury faces its most severe threat.”
Zander, an emeritus professor of law at the London School of Economics, w…
