Electronic Resource
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
The @Cambridge law journal
6 (1938), S. 367-380
ISSN:
0008-1973
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
Law
Notes:
Juries are divided into juries of presentment and juries of issue; this paper is concerned with the latter kind, commonly called trial juries. Modern writers are singularly chary of committing themselves to any opinion about juries. The eulogies of Blackstone are definitely unfashionable. The current opinion is perhaps on these lines: jury trial in civil cases is sometimes satisfactory and sometimes most unsatisfactory, and hence the restriction of jury trial has been a wise development; however, there is much to be said for jury trial in criminal cases and (in the past, at least) in cases where the liberty of the subject is concerned. If juries have in the past protected persons against political oppression, and if the conditions under which they did so are still existing or reasonably possible, then we have a point of such importance that it should receive priority in discussion.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008197300129277
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