{"id":1002,"date":"2009-06-18T22:34:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T21:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2009-07-26T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T13:23:09","slug":"no-jury-in-criminal-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"No jury in criminal trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1005\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/jury_trial-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"jury_trial\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>First defendants to be tried without a jury<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Court of Appeal has ruled that a criminal trial can take place at Crown Court without a jury for the first time in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, made legal history by agreeing to allow the trial to be heard by a judge alone.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time the power has been used since it came into force in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The case concerns four men accused of an armed robbery at Heathrow Airport in 2004. The judge said jury &#8220;tampering&#8221; was a &#8220;very significant&#8221; danger.<\/p>\n<p>BBC news report <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/8106590.stm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First defendants to be tried without a jury The Court of Appeal has ruled that a criminal trial can take place at Crown Court without a jury for the first time in England and Wales. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, made legal history by agreeing to allow the trial to be heard by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}