Non-Jury Trials

Jury trials are under threat in England and Wales following the announcement of a review into the criminal courts, to be led by Sir Brian Leveson. Newly ...

The Northern Ireland Office has launched a public consultation on the continued use of non-jury trials in Northern Ireland. The non-jury trial provisions of the Justice and Security ...

Professor Donncha O’Connell and Dr Alan Greene explain their decision to dissent from the majority on the independent review of the laws underpinning the operation of the ...

A long-awaited independent review has called for the Special Criminal Court to be replaced with a new, permanent non-jury court — while a dissenting minority has ...

Two diverging reports on the future of the non-jury Special Criminal Court are set to be published after the independent review group headed by Mr Justice Michael ...

Legislation allowing for non-jury trials in Northern Ireland should be renewed for the eighth time, the UK government has said. The Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act ...

Most rape trials in France will take place without juries under a widely-opposed cost-saving reform that undoes a change instituted by the 1789 revolution. All cases involving ...

Ministers have agreed to a further 12-month renewal of the legislation underpinning the prosecution of terrorism and organised crime offences in the non-jury Special Criminal Court. The ...

The High Court has refused a judicial review application by two accused to prohibit their trial in the Special Criminal Court. The applicants argued that the SCC ...

A high-profile US lawyer who represented Guantanamo Bay detainees and NSA whistleblower Chelsea Manning will argue for the abolition of Ireland's Special Criminal Court at an online ...

The Special Criminal Court was wrong to exclude the belief evidence of a Garda chief superintendent on the basis that he would not provide information on the ...

The non-jury Special Criminal Court should be abolished, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has recommended. The human rights watchdog said the State should declare that ...

An anonymised jury could be used in the Special Criminal Court (SCC), it has been suggested. The option is among a number of alternatives to abolishing the ...

There are insufficient safeguards around the use of Garda belief evidence in the Special Criminal Court, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The Commission ...

Legislation allowing for certain Crown Court trials in Northern Ireland to be heard without a jury will be renewed for what ministers hope will be the last ...