Cram, IG (2014) Penalising the googling juror. Reflections on the futility of Part 3 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill (2013-14). UK Constitutional Law Association.
Abstract
This blog takes as its focus provisions in Part 3 of the Bill which seeks to put on a statutory footing offences connected with private research by jurors. I suggest that resort to the criminal law constitutes a clumsy, impractical and unnecessarily punitive attempt to regulate the extra-curial activities of the modern, online juror. It is incumbent on our lawmakers to explore more imaginative responses to the undoubted problem of jurors’ access to untested, internet materials – responses that might be more obviously premised upon an appreciation of jurors’ dutiful efforts to arrive at just verdicts.
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Item Type: | Other |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2014, The University of Leeds. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2014 16:10 |
Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2014 16:10 |
Published Version: | http://ukconstitutionallaw.org/ |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | UK Constitutional Law Association |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:80922 |