http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=648540
David Barrett
"Plans to abolish juries in complex fraud trials do not amount to a general attack on jury trial, the Attorney General insisted today.
Lord Goldsmith QC unveiled plans to enact a change in the law which was passed by Parliament more than 18 months ago.
It will allow a single judge to sit on complex fraud trials, forsaking the 800-year-old tradition that defendants are tried by a panel of 12 jurors."
