Justice By Facebook
I think that this is the biggest threat to justice, I’ve seen in the last thirty years. In this case for example, according to the Guardian, a juror contacted the defendant and the trial collapsed at a cost to taxpayers of £6,000,000.
I don’t know how you stop it, unless you ban those who know about the Internet from juries.
So it might be the end of the jury system in many cases, and we go to a system, where defendants are tried in front of a panel of judges.
I hope not.
This is appalling, and the people concerned do indeed need to be jailed for contempt of court. However, I am surprised it hasnt happened before now. I have done jury service myself, there are a lot of people who really dont get serious purpose of a trial by jury.
Comment by liz | June 14, 2011 |