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Entries in Juries (5)

Tuesday
Apr292014

The hacking trial - watching paint dry

• DateTuesday, April 29, 2014

Jury service must come first, even if you lose your job ... Leverhulme at the hacking trial ... Court 12 at the Old Bailey, with the tapping of laptops ... A slow, colourless hour ... Japes aplenty in Dearest Jane, from racing writer Roger Mortimer 

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Friday
Feb082013

Jailing jurors who seek the truth

• DateFriday, February 8, 2013

Trial process trumps the search for truth ... Jurors promise to give a true verdict ... Lawyers and judges don't have to make promises about the "truth" ... The Theodora Dallas case and online research by jurors ... The confines of the adversarial criminal justice system ... Tulkinghorn opines 

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Tuesday
Aug092011

Recent developments in mushroom country

• DateTuesday, August 9, 2011

What must jurors think when they discover the truth after the event? ... Writing on the wall for juries when accused prefer judges alone ... Systematic subversion of the system ... Barry Lane call attention to the truth issue  

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Wednesday
Dec012010

Twittering juries

• DateWednesday, December 1, 2010

The era of open media and leaks of state secrets confronts courts and governments ... No solution in sight ... Barry Lane says its best to lie back and surrender

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Saturday
Jan012000

Vintage Lionel Murphy

• DateSaturday, January 1, 2000

On June 29, 1979 Justice Lionel Murphy delivered a rip-roaring speech in Adelaide to the first national conference of Labor lawyers ... Murphy at that time had been on the High Court for four years and was its fifth most senior judge ... Here he made his most revealing public statement since leaving politics ... The role of judges ... Tax avoidance and the courts ... Doctrine of precedent ... The need for judges to change the common law boldly 

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