{"id":54,"date":"2004-01-23T03:33:27","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T03:33:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-01-23T03:33:27","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T03:33:27","slug":"r-v-connor-and-mirza-conjoined-appeals-2004-hl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"R  v. Connor and Mirza (Conjoined Appeals) [2004] HL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jury deliberations&nbsp;must remain secret&nbsp;after a verdict has been given. By&nbsp;a 4-1 majority two appeals were dismissed which might have revealed unreasonable behaviour of jurors.&nbsp; Their Lordships affirmed the&nbsp;principle that&nbsp;not even&nbsp;appeal judges can inquire into the deliberations of jurors.&nbsp;Lord Slynn said the principle was &#8220;essential to the operation of the jury system as we know it&#8221;.&nbsp;<br \/>Case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk\/pa\/ld200304\/ldjudgmt\/jd040122\/conn-1.htm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jury deliberations&nbsp;must remain secret&nbsp;after a verdict has been given. By&nbsp;a 4-1 majority two appeals were dismissed which might have revealed unreasonable behaviour of jurors.&nbsp; Their Lordships affirmed the&nbsp;principle that&nbsp;not even&nbsp;appeal judges can inquire into the deliberations of jurors.&nbsp;Lord Slynn said the principle was &#8220;essential to the operation of the jury system as we know it&#8221;.&nbsp;Case [&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-54","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\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}