Hundreds inconvenienced by Jury (DUMB) Lottery

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 Friday, January 26, 2024 - 11:07

In my Opinion by F. Oliva

Four hundred law abiding Gibraltarian citizens have been inconvenienced this past week by the pointless socio-judicial ritual that is the jury selection process. 

For a whole day they have had to put up with a time-wasting dumb lottery, to pick out the nine individuals –ordinary men and women, presumably without any prior training or knowledge of the law – tasked with delivering a verdict in a financial fraud investigation after being instructed by the judge on applicable legislation.

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