the jury system was abolished in india in the 1960s, finishing with the 1973.
the jury system was abolished in india in the 1960s, finishing with the 1973.
when was the jury system abolished in india?
the 1960s, finishing with the 1973
zeisel joined the faculty of the university of chicago law school in 1953 to study the american jury system with harry kalven. the research zeisel and kalven conducted on the jury system produced two books: "delay in the court" (1959) and "the american jury". after retiring from the university of chicago, he continued conducting research, especially on capital punishment (of which he was a firm opponent) and trademark infringement. in 1977 he was elected as a fellow of the american statistical association. one of the last works he wrote discussed the limits of using statistical methods to study the legal system. this book was posthumously published in 1997 as "prove it with figures".
hans zeisel
the jury system was abolished in south africa in 1969 by the abolition of juries act, 1969. the last jury trial to be heard was in the district of kimberley. some judicial experts had argued that a system of whites-only juries (as was the system at that time) was inherently prejudicial to 'non-white' defendants (the introduction of nonracial juries would have been a political impossibility at that time). more recently it has been argued that, apart from being a racially divided country, south african society was, and still is, characterized by significant class differences and disparities of income and wealth that could make re-introducing the jury system problematic. arguments for and against the re-introduction of a jury system have been discussed by south african constitutional expert professor pierre de vos in the article "do we need a jury system?" on 28 march 2014, the oscar pistorius trial was adjourned due to the illness of one of the two assessors that assist the judge on questions of fact (rather than law), in place of the jury, to reach a verdict. the legal system in the uk sees no reason to block extradition on this, as witnessed in the shrien dewani case.
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