Jury System In Australia Essay

Georgia

We can take the example of Georgia. Transparency International of Georgia has reported that, people of Georgia should avoid going to the court as the judiciary is traditionally viewed as one of the most corrupted institutions of Georgia. In the Georgian National Voter Survey, February 2007, the voters claimed that judiciary is the second most important sphere that needs reform. In my view, the condition of Bangladesh is quite the same.

Trial by jury has been introduced in Georgia by the new Criminal Code of Georgia, which came into effect on October 1st of 2010. Because it is a new concept for the country, it has been decided by the law enforcement committee to limit the use of jury in Tbilisi until 1st July 2013 and only offences

Besides, ‘lawyers, psychologists and others who are potentially able to utilise their professional experience in deciding cases are also not obligated to serve as jury’. Additionally, the parties with the consent of the court may preclude jury. The jury members can also preclude themselves if either they have been on the jury for the past year; or they have to fulfil work, changing of which will cause significant damage; or because of their state of health; or have been abroad for a long time or is leaving Georgia; or is older than 70 years of

The legal professionals in Japan were always against the jury trial system as they did not want lay people to involve in administering justice. Because of this, jury trial could never be popular in Japan. Beside this fact, according to some commentators and researchers, there was another reason for unpopularity of the jury trial system in Japan. The reason was, the defendants, who choose jury trial, had to give up their right to appeal on factual determination made by the jury. Although the acquittal rate in jury trial was higher than the bench trial, jury was less admired by the