The not proven verdict and related reforms: consultation analysis

Footnotes

1. Research undertaken by Ipsos MORI and Professors James Chalmers and Fiona Leverick from the University of Glasgow and Professor Vanessa Munro from the University of Warwick, available at Scottish jury research: findings from a mock jury study - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

2. Research undertaken by Ipsos MORI and Professors James Chalmers and Fiona Leverick from the University of Glasgow and Professor Vanessa Munro from the University of Warwick, available at Scottish jury research: findings from a mock jury study - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

3. A summary of discussions at these engagement events is available at Supporting documents - Jury research - engagement events: summary of discussions - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

4. The use of the term 'victim' in this paper is not intended to have any particular legal meaning or imply anything about specific cases.

5. A few respondents raised that there was no "unsure" option for this question. However, the open text box allowed respondents to provide additional comments and to indicate if they neither agreed or disagreed with this question or were unsure.

6. For further information on routes to verdict, see Methods of Conveying Information to Jurors: An Evidence Review, 2018

7. 1994 SCCR 19