Topic
Jury
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Access to Justice and Legal Aid
Bar leaders criticise £34m legal aid delay as ministers press jury reform
The Bar Council and Criminal Bar Association have criticised ministers for failing to deliver an annual criminal legal aid increase, five months after the government pledged the funding. The government…
The Justice Gap
Jurors: the hidden victims in the criminal justice system
By Hannah Fawcett, Matt Brooks
When we think about the emotional impact of serious criminal trials, attention naturally turns to victims, witnesses, and defendants. Far less attention has been paid to the ordinary members of…
A Lawyer Writes
Pull every lever
A few hours before peers begin debating the government’s Courts and Tribunals Bill this afternoon, the House of Lords justice and home affairs committee will ask the courts minister Sarah…
Commercial Case Notes
Delay in Asserting Jury Waiver Bars its Enforcement
By John Lundin
On October 13, 2026, the First Department issued a decision in Iken v. Bohemian Brethren Presbyt. Church, 2026 NY Slip Op. 05909, holding that delay in asserting a jury waiver…
9/11 Victim Blog
I Was Serving Jury Duty Downtown on 9/11 and Was Later Diagnosed With Cancer. Now What?
By Turley Hansen & Rosasco, LLP
You went downtown because you had been called for jury duty. On September 11, 2001, that ordinary civic obligation may have placed you in the dust and debris released when…
Deandra Grant Law – Texas Criminal Defense & DWI Defense
Curtis Flowers: Six Trials, One Prosecutor, 23 Years
The short answer: Curtis Flowers was tried six times for the 1996 murders of four people at a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi, all by the same district attorney. Three…
EvidenceProf Blog
Supreme Court of Nebraska Finds Juror Who Acknowledged The Defendant Could Be at a Distinctive Disadvantage if He Were Empaneled Did Not Need to Be Struck for Cause
By Colin Miller
Pursuant to the Sixth Amendment, a criminal defendant has the right to a trial "by an impartial jury." So, would this standard be satisfied by a prospective juror who had…
Understanding the ADA
It May Be Just a Theoretical Right to Serve on a Jury, But a Person with a Disability Has a Real Right to Serve on a Grand Jury
Baseball playoffs are here as is the start of the NFL season. Good luck to all of your teams. Two of my three baseball teams (Braves and White Sox), made…
The Justice Gap
Government drops controversial plan to scrap jury trials
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has abandoned Starmer’s controversial plans to remove the right to jury trials for thousands of Crown Court cases after backlash from lawyers, campaigners, and MPs.The reversal,…
JURIST
A placard and a statute: observing the International Day of Non-Violence
2 October 2026: International Day of Non-Violence A retired social worker stands outside a courthouse holding a handwritten sign. Elsewhere, 13 people block the entrance to a federal building and…