Lady Dorrian Review Governance Group: Enhancing the Quality of Jury Involvement Working Group Report

Footnotes

1. Six were drawn from the membership of the Governance Group- the Scottish Government, the SCTS, COPFS, Faculty of Advocates, Law Society of Scotland, Rape Crisis, with the Group being joined by members of the Judicial Institute for Scotland.

2. See paras 5.30 to 5.53 of the LJC Review Report. Namely the research findings (many of which were unpublished at the time they were presented to the Review Group), of University College London Post discharge interviews with Jurors led by Professor Cheryl Thomas KC, and 2019 Large Scale Mock Jury study in Scotland led by Professors Chalmers, Munro and Leverick.

3. The Review by Sir John Gillen's Review into the law and procedures in serious sexual offences in Northern Ireland published in May 2019 recommends the introduction of generalised Jury Instructions in serious sexual offence cases. The Gillen Review is accessible here.

4. Hattie v HM Advocate [2022] HCJAC 13

5. W v HMA 2022 SCCR 109