LEGISLATION

Contempt of Court Act 1981 <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/49> [accessed 16 May 2025]Criminal Justice Act 2003 <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/44/> [accessed 16 May 2025]Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/2/> [accessed 16 May 2025]Juries Act 1974 <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/23/> [accessed 16 May 2025]

Selected Cases

17th century
The Trial of Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburne <https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A96856.0001.001/1:2.1> [accessed 17 May 2025]R v. Penn and Mead or The Trial of William Penn and William Mead, at the Old Bailey, for a Tumultuous Assembly (1670) <https://ia801300.us.archive.org/2/items/trialofwilliampe00pennuoft/trialofwilliampe00pennuoft.pdf> [accessed 17 May 2025]Bushel’s Case (1670) 124 ER 1006 <https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/Misc/1670/J1.html> [accessed 17 May 2025]The Earl of Shaftesbury’s Case. 86 ER 792 <https://www.commonlii.org/uk/cases/EngR/1677/89.pdf> [accessed 17 May 2025]The Case of the Seven Bishops. 87 ER 136 <https://www.commonlii.org/uk/cases/EngR/1793/1083.pdf> [accessed 17 May 2025]18th century
John Wilkes esq. against Wood esq. 98 E.R. 489
<https://www.commonlii.org/uk/cases/EngR/1763/103.pdf> [accessed 17 May 2025]Entick v. Carrington 95 ER 807 <https://www.commonlii.org/int/cases/EngR/1799/236.pdf> [accessed 17 May 2025]R. v. Shipley (1784) 4 Douglas 73 <https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/ReportsofCasesArguedandDeterminedi/hSdFAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA73&printsec=frontcover> [accessed 17 May 2025]20th century
R v. McKenna [1960] 1 QB 411R v Owen [1976] 1 WLR 840R v Ford [1989] QB 868Attorney General v Observer Ltd [1990] 1 A.C. 109Re Randle and Pottle [1991] COD 369R v Young [1995] QB 324R v Schot & Barclay [1997] EWCA Crim 3424 <https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/1997/3424.html> [accessed 17 May 2025]21st century
R v Connor, R v Mirza [2004] UKHL 2 <https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/2004/2.html> [accessed 17 May 2025]R v. Wang [2005] UKHL 9 <https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldjudgmt/jd050210/wang-1.htm> [accessed 17 May 2025]R v Thompson & Ors [2010] EWCA Crim 1623 <https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2010/1623.html> [accessed 17 May 2025]R v Graham, Ponsford, Skuse & Willoughby (Colston Four). Bristol Crown Court, 5 January 2022Attorney General’s Reference on a Point of Law, No.1 of 2022 (pursuant to section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972) <https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AG-Ref-Colston-Four-judgment-280922.pdf> [accessed 17 May 2025]HM Solicitor General v Trudi Warner [2024] EWHC 918 (KB)
<https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HM-Solicitor-General-v-Warner-Judgment-22.4.24-KB.pdf [accessed 17 May 2025]

BOOKS

Arlidge, A. Arlidge, Eady & Smith on Contempt, 5th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2017)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Baldwin, J. & McConville, M. Jury Trials. (Clarendon Press, 1979)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Bingham, T. H. The Rule of Law. (Penguin, 2011)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Blom-Cooper, L. Unreasoned Verdict: The Jury’s Out. (Hart, 2019)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Cornish, W. R. The Jury. (Allen Lane, 1968)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Devlin, P. Trial by Jury. (Stevens & Sons, 1966)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Finnis, J. Natural Law and Natural Rights, 2nd ed. (Clarendon Law Series, 2011)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Forsyth, W. History of Trial by Jury. (Parker, 1852)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Gans, J. The Ouija Board Jurors: Mystery, Mischief and Misery in the Jury System. (Waterside Press, 2017)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Green, T. Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal Trial Jury 1200-1800. (University of Chicago Press, 1985) <https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=books> [accessed 16 May 2025]
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Heffer, C. The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Helm, R. K. How Juries Work: And How They Could Work Better. (Oxford University Press, 2024)Monaghan, N. (ed.) Contemporary Challenges in the Jury System: A Comparative Perspective. (Taylor & Francis, 2004)Oldham, J. The Varied Life of the Self-Informing Jury. (Selden Society, 2005)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]Ponting, C. The Right to Know: the Inside Story of the Belgrano Affair. (Sphere, 1985)Singer, M. Jury Duty: Reclaiming Your Political Power and Taking Responsibility. (Praeger, 2012)

ARTICLES & REPORTS

Auld, L. J. Review of the Criminal Courts of England and Wales (HMSO, 2001) <https://www.criminal-courts-review.org.uk/auldconts.htm> [accessed 16 May 2025]Brooks, T. ‘A Defence of Jury Nullification.’ (Res Publica, 2004, Issue 10)Coen, M. & Doak, J. ’Embedding Explained Jury Verdicts in the English Criminal Trial’. (Legal Studies, Vol. 37, Issue 4) <https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/31326/1/8880_Doak.pdf> [accessed 16 May 2025]Crosby, K. 'Before the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015: Juror Punishment in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century England'. (Legal Studies, Vol. 36, Issue 2)Crosby, K. ‘Bushell’s Case and the Juror’s Soul’. (The Journal of Legal History, Vol, 33, Issue 3)Crosby, K. ‘Controlling Devlin’s Jury: What the Jury Thinks, and What the Jury Sees Online’. (Criminal Law Review, 2012, Issue 1)Crosby, K. ‘Juror Punishment, Juror Guidance and the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015’ (Criminal Law Review, 2015, Issue 8) <https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/211305> [accessed 16 May 2025]Curley, J., Dror, I. & Munro, J. ‘Juries are Subject to All Kinds of Biases When it Comes to Deciding on a Trial’. (The Conversation, 28 February 2022) <https://theconversation.com/juries-are-subject-to-all-kinds-of-biases-when-it-comes-to-deciding-on-a-trial-176721> [accessed 17 May 2025]Devlin, P. ‘The Conscience of the Jury’. (Law Quarterly Review, July 1991)Fissell, B. M. ‘Jury Nullification and the Rule of Law’. (Legal Theory, Vol. 19, Issue 3) <https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2347&context=faculty_scholarship> [accessed 16 May 2025]FitzGibbon, F. ‘Juror’s Consciences’. (London Review of Books, 30 January 2024)
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/january/jurors-consciences> [accessed 16 May 2025]Fitzpatrick, P. ‘The British Jury: An Argument for the Reconstruction of the Little Parliament.’ (Cambridge Student Law Review, Vol. 6, Issue 1)Forsyth, H. ‘Can a Jury Ignore the Law? Perverse Verdicts in Protest Cases’. (Exchange Chambers, 24 February 2022) <https://www.exchangechambers.co.uk/can-a-jury-ignore-the-law/> [accessed 16 May 2025]Hallet, H. ‘Trial by Jury: Past and Present’. (Judiciary of England and Wales, 2017)
<https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/hallett-lj-blackstone-lecture-20170522-1.pdf> [accessed 16 May 2025]Hannaford, C. ‘Jurors Behaving Badly’. (Mountford Chambers, 24 April 2024) <https://www.mountfordchambers.com/jurors-behaving-badly/> [accessed 16 May 2025]Helm, R. K. ‘The Challenge of “Factual Hard Cases” for Guilty Plea Regimes’. (Modern Law Review, Vol. 87, Issue 5)Hreno, T. ‘The Rule of Law and Jury Nullification’. (Commonwealth Law Bulletin, Vol. 34, Issue 2) <https://doi.org/10.1080/03050710802038353> [accessed 16 May 2025]Hewit, D. ‘“Not Only a Right, But a Duty”: A History of Perverse Verdicts’. (The Justice Gap, 1 May 2018) <https://www.thejusticegap.com/not-only-a-right-but-a-duty-a-history-of-perverse-verdicts/> [accessed 16 May 2025]Hewit, D. ‘Who Says it’s Perverse?’ (New Law Journal, 27 October 2017) <https://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/docs/default-source/articlefiles/022nlj7767backpage_hewitt.pdf> [accessed 16 May 2025]Hodgetts, M. ‘Case Comment: Solicitor General v. Warner’. (Archbold Review, 2024, Issue 9)Huemer, M. ‘The Duty to Disregard the Law’. (Criminal Law & Philosophy, Vol. 12, Issue 1)Jackson, E. et al. ‘The Effect of Verdict System on Juror Decisions: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis’. (Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Vol. 32, Issue 1) <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13218719.2023.2272912> [accessed 16 May 2025]Jackson, J. ‘Modes of Trial: Shifting the Balance Towards the Professional Judge’. (Criminal Law Review, April 2002)‘Is Justice Done Better With or Without Juries and in What Type of Trials?’. (International Legal Practitioner, Vol 10, Issue 1)McCabe, S. By-passing the Jury: A Study of Changes of Please and Directed Acquittals in Higher Courts. (Oxford University Penal Research Unit, 1972)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]McCabe, S & Purves, R. The Jury at Work: A Study of a Series of Jury Trials in Which the Defendant was Aquitted. (Oxford University Penal Research Unit, 1972)
[Held at the Inner Temple Library]McEwan, J., Redmayne, M., & Tinsley, Y. ‘Evidence, Jury Trials and Witness Protection - The Auld Review of the English Criminal Courts’. (The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, Vol. 6, Issue 3)Madge, N. ‘Summing Up - A Judge’s Perspective’. (Criminal Law Review, September 2006)Randle, M. ‘Is Our Jury System So Perverse?’ (The Guardian, 14 October 2001) <https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/oct/14/jurytrials.humanrights> [accessed 16 May 2025]Robertshaw, P. ‘For Auld Lang Syne - Towards the Demise of the Jury?’. (The Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 66, Issue 4)Ross, L. ‘Mock Juries, Real Trials: How to Solve (Some) Problems with Jury Science’. (Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3)
<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jols.12494> [accessed 16 May 2025]Rozenberg, J. ‘Cause and Effect - Can Juries Spurn the Law?’ (Law Society’s Gazette, 1 December 2023) <https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and-opinion/causes-and-effect-can-juries-spurn-the-law/5118092.article> [accessed 16 May 2025]Sanders, J. ‘A Norms Approach to Jury “Nullification”: Interests, Values and Scripts’. (Law & Policy, Vol. 30, Issue 1) <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9930.2008.00268.x> [accessed 16 May 2025]Slapper, G. ‘Perverse Little Parliament: Questions the Role of the Jury in a Changing World’. (The Times, 10 September 1996)Spencer, J. R. ‘Jury Equity - A Changing Climate’. (Archbold Review, 2023, Issue 9)Thomas, C. Are Juries Fair. (Ministry of Justice Research Series, 2010) <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/judicial-institute/sites/judicial-institute/files/arejuriesfair.pdf> [accessed 16 May 2025]Thomas, C. Diversity and Fairness in the Jury System. (Ministry of Justice Research Series, 2007) <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/judicial-institute/sites/judicial-institute/files/diversity-fairness-in-the-jury-system.pdf> [accessed 16 May 2025]Waller, N. & Sakande, N. ‘Majority Jury Verdicts in England and Wales: A Vestige of White Supremacy’. (Race and Class, Vol. 65, Issue 4) <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03063968231212992> [accessed 16 May 2025]

AUDIO/VIDEO

Grant, T. ‘The Political Jury’. (Gresham College, 11 January 2021) <https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/political-jury> [accessed 16 May 2025]‘Jury Trial’. (Unreliable Evidence, 1 May 2010) <https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s3gq7> [accessed 16 May 2025]Thomas, L. ‘Do we need juries?’ (Gresham College, 29 September 2022) <https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/juries> [accessed 16 May 2025]‘What is the Future of Juries?’ (The Law Show, 1 March 2011) <https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yyhqn> [accessed 16 May 2025]

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