Jury Research Seminar - List of Online References (prepared by Dr David Tait)

Michael Chesterman et al, Managing prejudicial publicity: an empirical study

of criminal trials In New South Wales, 2001,

Justice Tasmania, Issues Paper, Review of Jury Act 1899, 1999,

Justice Michael Kirby, Speaking to the modern jury - new challenges for

judges and advocates,

ABC, The World Today, Blame laid for drop in rape convictions, 2001,

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/s420201.htm (obsolete link)

Marcia Neave interviewed by Terry Lane, Homicide defences, 2002,

Final report, Volume 3, Jury service in Victoria, 1997,

Some references from Neil Vidmar at Duke University, a prominent U.S. jury

scholar:

1. A study that Shari Diamond he have conducted involving

videotaping of the deliberations of real jurors. Although civil juries the

research gives lots of insights about the jury process.

2 An article on pretrial and midtrial prejudice that cites the

Australian and New Zealand studies involving post-trial interviews with

jurors.

3. an article surveying lay participation (juries and assessors) in the

Commonnwealth of Nations that will shortly be published in Criminal Law

Forum.