{"id":242,"date":"2005-10-29T00:22:30","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T00:22:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-29T00:22:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T00:22:30","slug":"juries-under-threat-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Juries under threat, again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Goldsmith, the <strong>Attorney General<\/strong> announced that juries might no longer be used from 1st January 2006 in serious or complicated fraud cases. <br \/>A judge would sit alone in probably 15 and 20 such cases a year where the judge considers that the trial is too &#8220;burdensome&#8221; for a jury. Such a trial would also need the approval of the Lord Chief Justice. <br \/>The <strong>Criminal Justice Act 2003 s43<\/strong> permits non-jury fraud trials but the government agreed it would not be implemented without further approval from both Houses, it is expected that there will significant opposition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General announced that juries might no longer be used from 1st January 2006 in serious or complicated fraud cases. A judge would sit alone in probably 15 and 20 such cases a year where the judge considers that the trial is too &#8220;burdensome&#8221; for a jury. Such a trial would also [&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-242","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\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}