The object of the Jury Amendment Bill 2023 is to make miscellaneous amendments to the Jury Act 1977, including in response to a statutory review of amendments made to the Act by the Jury Amendment (Verdicts) Act 2006, and for related purposes. This document evaluates the government's case for legislative reform.

This report recommends ways to remove barriers from current law and practice that prevent Victorians who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision, from serving as jurors.

The Victorian Law Reform Commission has released this consultation paper as part of their consideration over what changes to legislation and practices should be made to enhance access for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision who wish to serve as jurors in Victoria.

Jurors’ use of social media and other internet activity during criminal trials is the focus of research underway at the Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI). There has been limited research in this area in Australia and overseas. The prevalence of juror misconduct of this kind remains largely unknown.

This report forms part of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s research program in relation to criminal justice system’s response to child sexual abuse in institutional contexts. This study investigated the extent to which joint trials with cross-admissible tendency evidence infringed defendants’ rights, and the extent to which joint trials posed...