They are trusted to decide on complex cases but aren’t being trusted to operate a microwave – and refused any food. Northern Ireland is by far the worst part of the British Isles in which to be a juror
Jurors in Northern Ireland are being treated shabbily when it comes to being fed in comparison to our MLAs who can dine in Stormont’s taxpayer subsidised restaurant
In Laganside’s court 13, a jury has been sitting intermittently since September. They’re being trusted to hear a complex months-long fraud trial in which their verdict could send two men to jail – but aren’t trusted to operate a toaster.
The jury in the Nama fraud trial this week inadvertently exposed an absurdity and an injustice at the heart of Northern Ireland’s justice system.