Download or read book Judge Without Jury written by John Jackson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cases connected with the troubles in Northern Ireland have been tried by a judge sitting without a jury in `Diplock Courts'. Given the symbolic importance of the jury within the common law tradition, this study offers the first systematic comparison of the process of trial by judge alone withthat of trial by jury. The authors determine the impact of the replacement of jury trial with trial by a professional judge on the adversarial character of the criminal trial process.