Remote jury trials during COVID-19: what one project found about fairness and technology
Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
On March 23 2020, jury trials in England and Wales were suspended in response to COVID-19. This was done to protect public safety as social distancing measures were difficult to implement in courtrooms. Since then, several proposals, such as remote trials, have been put forward to address how jury trials might continue, and how to tackle the backlog of crown court cases which currently stands at over 40,500.