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Judiciary mulls radical measures to resume jury trials

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Published on: 06 May 2020
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Law360, London: The judiciary in England and Wales is under pressure to resume jury trials amid a mounting backlog of criminal cases that risks swamping the criminal justice system, but lawyers are at odds over how far the courts should go to get juries seated again.

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