Thursday, July 28, 2011

Facebook could threaten jury trials in UK, attorney general warns...

Social networking websites such as Facebook could threaten the existence of jury trials in the UK, the attorney general has warned.

Dominic Grieve MP said that the temptation for jurors to research cases on the internet could render jury trials “impossible”.

Mr Grieve was speaking about the case in which juror Joanne Fraill, 40, was jailed for using the social networking site to contact a defendant in a multi-million-pound drugs trial.

 In a magazine interview due to be published on Friday, he said : “She disrupted the court proceedings in flagrant breach of what the judge had told her and she has paid a heavy price for it. More...

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