Juries Prefer the Good Looking Study shows juries are more likely to find good looking innocent, volunteer 'jurors' were asked about looks as part of survey into effect of ethnicity 22.03.07 Daily Mail
Enron Jury Judge Simeon Lake insists there is no problem selecting jury for trial of ex-Enron execs Lay and Skilling, says it will take one day 30.01.06 NY Times, Enron
Fraud Jurors The Bar Council urged the Government to drop its plans to scrap juries in serious fraud cases, as well as its 'mini-jury' alternative of trial by judge with lay assessors 28.11.05 Bar Council Press Release, Fraud
Trial by Jury The Law Society has urged the Government to drop plans to remove juries in complex fraud cases and to give new criminal procedure rules and the complex case protocol a chance to work 28.11.05 Law Society Press Release, Fraud
Fraud Case Juries Government plans to remove juries in complex fraud cases must be opposed say the Law Society, Justice and the Bar Council who are supporting an EDM tabled against the proposals 22.10.05 Law Society Press Release, Fraud Links
Jury Trials Worldcom and Tyco trials show that juries are perfectly capable of coming to decisions in 'complex fraud trials' 05.07.05 Times, Fraud Links
DCA Statement on Heavy Fraud Trials The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, today handed down a new Protocol dealing with the management of complex trials in England and Wales. The aim of the Protocol is to reduce the length of complex trials for fraud and other crimes 23.03.05 DCA Press Release, Fraud, Jubilee Line Fraud
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Witness Coaching Judge Leonie M. Brinkema has banned key prosecution witnesses from sentencing hearing in case of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, follows coaching of witnesses by lawyer Carla J. Martin 15.03.06 NY Times, Terror
Sion Jenkins Third trial of Sion Jenkins for murder of foster daughter Billie-Jo returns not guilty verdict, wife Lois Jenkins 'bad character' testimony of previous violence might have been admitted under CJA 2003 Times Evidence of history of domestic violence 10.02.06 Guardian, Criminal Justice
Monckton Verdict Damien Hanson convicted of murder of City financier John Monckton, first trial to take advantage of CJA 2003 allowing previous convictions to be used to establish 'bad character', Bar now taking conciliatory tone on issue 16.12.05 BBC, Criminal Justice