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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Blom-Cooper, Louis (1926-2018)
Titre(s) : Unreasoned verdict [Texte électronique] : the jury's out / Louis Blom-Cooper
Publication : Oxford : Hart, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
"The system of jury trial has survived, intact, for 750 years. In the light of contemporary
opposition to jury trial for serious offences, this book explains the nature and scope
today of jury trial, with its minor exceptions. It chronicles the origins and development
of jury trial in the Anglo-Saxon world, seeking to explain and explore the principles
that lie at the heart of the mode of criminal trial. It observes the distinction between
the professional judge and the amateur juror or lay participant, and the value of
such a mixed tribunal. Part of the book is devoted to the leading European jurisdictions,
underlining their abandonment of trial by jury and its replacement with the mixed
tribunal in pursuance of a political will to inject a lay element into the trial process.
Democracy is not an essential element in the criminal trial. The book takes a look
at the appellate system in crime, from the Criminal Appeals Act 1907 to the present
day, and urges the reform of the appellate court, finding the trial decision unsatisfactory
as well as unsafe. Other important issues are touched upon - judicial ethics and court-craft;
perverse jury verdicts (the nullification of jury verdicts); the speciality of fraud
offences, and the selection of models for various crimes, as well as suggested reforms
of the waiver of a jury trial or the ability of the defendant to choose the mode of
trial. The section ends with a discussion of the restricted exceptions to jury trial,
where the experience of 30 years of judge-alone trials in Northern Ireland - the Diplock
Courts - is discussed. Finally, the book proffers its proposal for a major change
in direction - involvement of the defendant in the choice of mode of trial, and the
intervention (where necessary) of the expert, not merely as a witness but as an assessor
to the judiciary or as a supplemental decision-maker."
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : XIII-136 p.
Sujet(s) : Jury -- Grande-Bretagne
Droit pénal -- Grande-Bretagne
Indice(s) Dewey :
347.075 2 (23e éd.) = Jurys
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781509915224. - ISBN 1509915222. - ISBN 9781509915231 (erroné). - ISBN 9781509915248
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45761505z
Notice n° :
FRBNF45761505
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Preamble ; Justice and fairness : the basis of a fair trial ; The theory of jury
function ; Reason for reasons ; European dimensions ; The value of the mixed (lay
participation) tribunal ; The tale of taxquet ; Juryless trials : diplock courts
and others ; Court-craft : judicial and advocate ethics ; Expert evidence ; Serious
fraud offences : whither their trial? ; Waiver or choice : an Australasian example
; Jury reality : the search for empirical evidence ; The scope of jury trial and
reasoned decisions ; Perverse verdicts : jury nullification ; The magistracy today
: towards professionalism ; Jury trial : a modern mode of trial ; The appellate
process ; Conclusion.
