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Cover illustration: 'The Trial' 1960 - by David F G Boyd - OAM Oil painting on canvas 152.4 x 213.3 cm - The University of Melbourne Art Collection Reproduced courtesy of Lucinda and Cassandra Boyd \nThis book provides a broad understanding of and critical thinking about the contemporary jury system. It fills a void of easily accessible knowledge about how jury trials work and how jury research assists us to formulate new ways to improve the system. Current issues challenging the jury system, such as the impact that technology is having on jury trials, are discussed. \nJuries in the 21st Century is designed to inform jury practitioners (judges, barristers, instructing solicitors, and forensic experts) about what constitutes best practice for them. It details how other jurisdictions are dealing with issues within their jury systems and allows jury practitioners to understand which practices are based upon fact and which are based on habit, anecdote and other misconceptions. \nIt encourages jury practitioners and law reformers to consider new approaches in order to improve jury communication. \nTeachers and researchers in law, psychology, criminology and sociology should find this cross-disciplinary book useful as it synthesises the current state of jury research. To curious members of the public who have or would like to serve on a jury, this book will provide you with insight into jury trials and jury room dynamics.  \n  \n** In the News... Juror charged with ‘playing detective’, 14 January 2014, The Age. Read full article...

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Author:   Jaqueline Horan
Publisher:   Federation Press
Imprint:   Federation Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781862878945

ISBN 10:   1862878943
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   28 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part A - Introduction - Identification of the problem Part B - Structuring Part C - The insolvency system Part D - Some specific topics, testing the system Part E - Ethics Part F - Some available options and pitfalls Part G - Conclusion and checklist

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Dr Horan has written a sophisticated, carefully reasoned and thoroughly sound text that presents a new, and refreshingly different, approach to our understanding of the contemporary role of the jury in our criminal justice system. It puts forward a distillation of some of the best thinking on the subject, and points the way towards legal reforms that are urgently needed. - Justice Mark Weinberg, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria ... This book is a great resource for all who work with juries. It is of special importance for jury advocates and advocacy teachers in their understanding of how best to communicate and persuade. - Professor The Honourable George Hampel AM QC, Chairman, Australian Advocacy Institute, Professor of Trial Practice and Advocacy, Monash University

Dr Horan carefully and succinctly distils a decade of research and tells practitioners what works and what does not. Her work is up to date: 2012 studies and cases are included. A few myths are exploded but many aspects of practical wisdom are shown by sound research to be effective. If our criminal justice system is to use juries - and this book demonstrates why they are essential - then we must show we appreciate them and use them effectively. Dr Horan helps practitioners do so with many practical insights. She also explores areas where we can and should innovate. Every trial lawyer must read this book. Read full review... - Judge Andrew Haesler SC, LIJ, February 2013 Dr Horan manages to tackle the impact of technological innovation and social media on the jury system in a manner that will remain relevant through the years of change to come. I fear I have no choice, therefore, but to resort to superlatives in describing this work. This book is the most timely, accomplished and not-at-all-foolhardy contribution to the study of juries in Australia this century. Read full review... - The Hon T F Bathurst, Chief Justice of NSW, Hearsay, December 2012, 58 Dr Horan has written a sophisticated, carefully reasoned and thoroughly sound text that presents a new, and refreshingly different, approach to our understanding of the contemporary role of the jury in our criminal justice system. It puts forward a distillation of some of the best thinking on the subject, and points the way towards legal reforms that are urgently needed. - Justice Mark Weinberg, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria Taking a decidedly interdisciplinary perspective, blending law and relevant jury research, in Juries in the 21st Century, Dr. Horan summarises what we know about Australian juries and the challenges the law faces. Showing that contemporary Australian jurors are generally smart, well-educated, and capable of learning, Dr. Horan concludes that the modern jury is capable of meeting the challenge of deciding increasingly complex cases in the modern digital media era. She argues, however, that legal and judicial practice need to be adapted to embrace technology in order to improve the jury system. This highly readable and timely book will be equally appealing and useful to lawyers, judges, students of both law and social science, jury researchers -- and indeed anyone with an interest in this most important aspect of our legal system. - Professor James R P Ogloff, FAPS Director, Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science Monash University and Forensicare This book is a great resource for all who work with juries. It is of special importance for jury advocates and advocacy teachers in their understanding of how best to communicate and persuade. - Professor The Honourable George Hampel AM QC, Chairman, Australian Advocacy Institute, Professor of Trial Practice and Advocacy, Monash University

Dr Horan carefully and succinctly distils a decade of research and tells practitioners what works and what does not. Her work is up to date: 2012 studies and cases are included. A few myths are exploded but many aspects of practical wisdom are shown by sound research to be effective. If our criminal justice system is to use juries - and this book demonstrates why they are essential - then we must show we appreciate them and use them effectively. Dr Horan helps practitioners do so with many practical insights. She also explores areas where we can and should innovate. Every trial lawyer must read this book. Read full review... - Judge Andrew Haesler SC, LIJ, February 2013 ... I remain an advocate of jury trial. But my mind could not help but think about whether our approach to these trials was keeping abreast with the times and with the increased use of computer animation, power point presentations and the like. We remain very conservative in our approach to how we present our evidence to a jury. This excellent book is written by Dr. Horan, an academic Victorian barrister who has taken my thoughts to a much more refined level, resulting in a text from which anyone who engages in jury trials, or intends to do so, can gain a great deal. The book considers juries from the beginning, that is, jury selection, right through to the presentation of evidence to them. Juries in the 21st Century considers the results of jury polling in a number of States as well as the results of some mock jury trials. The book, generally, tries to use this feedback to guide the legal profession in attaining a better understanding of how jurors are selected and what makes a jury tick. Let me leave you with the suggestion that every page of this book contains thoughtful material of how we can better present our evidence to a jury. I did not agree with everything that was said. But every comment that I read was thought provoking and challenged my own personal views. Surely, that is the hallmark of a first rate textbook. This newly published book is highly recommended. Read full review... - Brian Morgan, Hearsay, February 2013, 60 Dr Horan manages to tackle the impact of technological innovation and social media on the jury system in a manner that will remain relevant through the years of change to come. I fear I have no choice, therefore, but to resort to superlatives in describing this work. This book is the most timely, accomplished and not-at-all-foolhardy contribution to the study of juries in Australia this century. Read full review... - The Hon T F Bathurst, Chief Justice of NSW, Hearsay, December 2012, 58 Dr Horan has written a sophisticated, carefully reasoned and thoroughly sound text that presents a new, and refreshingly different, approach to our understanding of the contemporary role of the jury in our criminal justice system. It puts forward a distillation of some of the best thinking on the subject, and points the way towards legal reforms that are urgently needed. - Justice Mark Weinberg, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria Taking a decidedly interdisciplinary perspective, blending law and relevant jury research, in Juries in the 21st Century, Dr. Horan summarises what we know about Australian juries and the challenges the law faces. Showing that contemporary Australian jurors are generally smart, well-educated, and capable of learning, Dr. Horan concludes that the modern jury is capable of meeting the challenge of deciding increasingly complex cases in the modern digital media era. She argues, however, that legal and judicial practice need to be adapted to embrace technology in order to improve the jury system. This highly readable and timely book will be equally appealing and useful to lawyers, judges, students of both law and social science, jury researchers -- and indeed anyone with an interest in this most important aspect of our legal system. - Professor James R P Ogloff, FAPS Director, Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science Monash University and Forensicare This book is a great resource for all who work with juries. It is of special importance for jury advocates and advocacy teachers in their understanding of how best to communicate and persuade. - Professor The Honourable George Hampel AM QC, Chairman, Australian Advocacy Institute, Professor of Trial Practice and Advocacy, Monash University

Author Information

Dr Horan is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Melbourne’s Law School and member of the Victorian Bar (academic). Dr Horan is one of the leading jury researchers in Australia, with experience conducting field research and experimental studies and was the first academic researcher to be given access to Victorian jurors. She is the co-author of the report; Goodman-Delahunty, J., Tait, D., Pratley, J., Clough, J., Horan, J., Ogloff, J. R. P., & Brewer, N. (2007). Practices, policies and procedures that influence juror satisfaction in Australia. Australian Institute of Criminology Research and Public Policy Series. Dr Horan is also the Lead Investigator in two Australian Research Council Linkage projects on Juries and Expert Evidence. This project has been given rare access to interview jurors in three Australian states about expert evidence and the results will be published in 2013.

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