Do jury trials restrict the development of civil law?

Just as the development of the modern administrative state led to the creation ... The absence of the civil jury also helps to explain the relative lack of restrictions on the admissibility of evidence in the civil-law system. Hearsay and opinion evidence is ... As noted above, civil-law countries do not have a tradition of jury trials in. read more

Jury trials are used in a significant share of serious criminal cases in almost all common law lawful systems (Singapore, for example, is an exception), and juries or lay judges have been incorporated into the legal systems of many civil law countries for criminal cases. read more

In civil cases there was only ever one type of jury- the trial jury of 12 members, which had its origins in the Assize of Clarendon 1166[l]. By 1304 it was the rule of the common law courts that all trespass action had to be tried with a jury. read more

The Criminal Law Act 1977 removed the right to jury trial in a number of offences by making most driving offences and relatively minor criminal damage cases summary only. Since 1977, more and more cases have been removed from the jury trail by making them summary only. read more