According to my mum: “if you even miss a single day they throw the entire jury out and have to restart the whole court case again so that the new jurors can hear all the evidence”. I feel that would make longer cases exponentially impractical.

I can’t find anything about this on the internet, other than for someone asking this question in America.

  • WaterWaiverOPEnglish
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    6 days ago

    then had lunch with the judge during deliberations where we chatted about how stupid the case was.

    I suspect they might see it as their duty to point out legal stupidity; if only just so that the jurors are not given a bad impression of the whole legal system.