Juries in the Digital Age: Managing Juror Online and Social Media Use During Trial

Title: Juries in the Digital Age: Managing Juror Online and Social Media Use During Trial
Creator: Goodman-Delahunty, Jane; Tait, David
Relation: Australian Courts: Controversies, Challenges and Change p. 45-71
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19063-6_3
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2023
Description: Questions about the contemporary relevance of juries, their ability to make impartial decisions and their ability to respond to emerging challenges have long been a focus of debate. This chapter considers these questions and explores the extent to which juries continue to ensure that an accused person receives a fair trial. Whilst jury processes remained largely unchanged throughout the twentieth century, jurors have evolved in the twenty-first century-becoming more highly educated and with access to information through technology in the palm of the hand. Access to digital information can both enhance and pollute a criminal trial. This chapter advocates reforms to ensure jurors are kept engaged and active, are well informed through written collaborative jury directions, and deliberate more thoroughly without being tempted to seek their own digital advice.
Subject: juries and jurors; jury trials; social media; justice outcomes; contempt of court; SDG 16; Sustainable Development Goals
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1491823
Identifier: uon:53138
Identifier: ISBN:9783031190629
Language: eng

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