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Judicial Recusation In The Federal Republic Of Germany, Sigmund A. Cohn

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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A Theory Of The Perverse Verdict, Bethel G.A Erastus-Obilo

Bethel G.A Erastus-Obilo

The concept of a perverse verdict is one that pervades the Criminal justice system of nearly all common law jurisdictions. The English Criminal Justice system is no exception and the concept has become institutionalised as if it were a true occurrence. This paper challenges the idea and argues that it is, technically, a legal non-event given the system of trial by jury. The theory is that besides the jury, no one else is invested with the power and authority to declare a verdict and this position is supported both by legal custom and the mechanism of the criminal justice system. …

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Summary Jury Trial: Who Will Speak For The Jurors, The, Charles W. Hatfield

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Since its inception in 1980, the summary jury trial has received much attention in the scholarly journals and the courts. Most of the arguments and litigation center around the impact of the summary jury trial on the parties or their lawyers. One issue which has gone almost untouched is the authority of the courts to empanel the advisory jury; the backbone of the entire procedure. In Hume v. M,& C Management,2 the court addressed its authority to require citizens to serve as jurors in this alternative method of dispute resolution.