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35th Blackstone Lecture by Lady Justice Hallett: Trial by Jury - Past and Present



It is a pleasure to have been asked to give this year's Blackstone lecture. Lord Devlin at the outset of his Hamlyn Lectures in 1956 observed: that trial by jury was a subject on which it was not possible to "�say anything very novel or very profound'. If not a subject suitable for original comment, why did I choose it?

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