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Lack of juror support adds to uncertain future for jury trials, says founder of commission

from The Lawyer's Daily

Lack of juror support adds to uncertain future for jury trials, says founder of commission The Lawyer's Daily As some judicial leaders question the future of civil juries, one jurors advocate is warning that the impact of COVID-19 could leave Canadian courts with a severe shortage of jurors when in-person trials resume, unless provinces provide improved support. “A lot of Canadians, when they receive a summons, the first thing they want to do is find a way to get out of it,” said Mark Farrant, the founder of the Canadian Juries Commission (CJC), a Toronto-based non-profit launched in 2019 to lobby for the interests of jurors and the jury system. READ MORE

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