On Jan 23, 2006, at 17:39, Rich wrote:
It would be great to seen anyone new, but especially any Finns out there, as i gather you do juries quite differently to those of us hailing from the Anglo-Saxon world.
We don't have trial by jury in Finland. We do, however, have lay judges in lower courts. See http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.info/blog/en/judicial/finland/ intro.html for an introduction in English.
So I guess we should either scope the debate to an Anglo-Saxon context or reverse the motion. :-)
P.S. For background info, the following criticism of the Anglo-Saxon system from within (Australia) may be interesting (not about jury vs. no jury per se but rather about Anglo-Saxon vs. Continental):
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v5n4/whitton54.html -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
