Juryless Trials

The Scottish government's controversial plans to introduce juryless trials have come in for yet more criticism. A pilot project in which judges alone would determine the guilt or innocence of people accused of rape would require the consent of the accused to participate. Lawyers are, unsurprisingly,

Here is your starter for 10. What do the following have in common: “Moorov, concert, fraud.” Cases involving these elements may cause more difficulty for jurors than say, a straight-forward assault. Whatever the complexity, we do allow the most difficult cases to be dealt with by a jury,

Lawyers have reacted with dismay to plans to push ahead with a pilot of juryless trials in Scotland. The Scottish government announced the introduction of the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill to Holyrood yesterday.

Kenny MacAskill has said the Scottish government must “come clean” over whether it was allowing prosecutors and women's groups to lay the ground for radical reform of the justice system as senior legal figures continue to insist on juryless trials. Mr MacAskill wrote to Justice Secretary