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Juries in complex fraud trials

In Parliament yesterday the government was called upon to look again at legislation scrapping the use of juries in complex fraud trials. The shadow Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, told the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, should stop using collapse of the £25m Jubilee Line trial. the case as justification for the move. Jurors in that case said they perfectly well understood the evidence and it was the lawyers who failed to make progress with the trial.