A Fleet Street journalist serves on the jury for a long kidnapping case at the Old Bailey. Thoughtful and thought provoking rather than sensationalist or shallow, this should be read by anyone with an interest in the English criminal justice system. It's a thumbs up for juries - despite their shifting dynamics, they are moulded by the process into a sum greater than its parts, though the system they work within cries out for reform.
(Kate Hobson - bwl 9 June 2001 ) |
