Ministry of Justice Juror Satisfaction Survey report<\/a>. <\/p>\n\u201cThe annual survey gathers valuable feedback from jurors on various aspects of their jury duty experience, helping to inform key decisions to improve court services and ensuring that future jurors have a more efficient and comfortable experience.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Chief Victims Advisor to government Ruth Money
\nNew Zealand Herald photograph by Alex Burton <\/p>\n
Victims\u2019 advisor says look to other jurisdictions for examples<\/p>\n
Chief Victims Advisor to the government Ruth Money said she had already flagged concerns about jury service with Minister of Justice Paul Goldsmith. <\/p>\n
Money said she had questioned whether juries were still relevant for some offences.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs the jury system working at its best to ensure they are best reflection of the community? I think there should be a review of the jury system; the Ministry of Justice operations should review current fees.\u201d <\/p>\n
Money said Denmark and Germany were case examples of jurisdictions where experts were empanelled instead of juries. She said it could work in New Zealand with certain types of offences, specifically sexual and family violence matters. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not new, there have been a number of people looking at it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Money said she did still see the importance of juries within the justice system.<\/p>\n
\u201cJuries are really important in our justice system, but are we looking at them in terms of $31 for a half day, if someone can\u2019t get childcare, are we excluding certain populations? <\/p>\n
\u201cWe should be paying people more, again, a problem, where do you get the money from?\u201d<\/p>\n
Money acknowledged the current system was not efficient, lengthy and \u201cfairly manual\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the Ministry of Justice should be going to the Justice Minister with some advice, they could undertake a review.\u201d<\/p>\n
Money said she understood the courts were \u201cfull\u201d of an expanding \u201ccomplexity\u201d of cases. \u201cAgain, if the cases are complex, is there a need for a jury or a more effective and efficient solution?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI would encourage a review, so it is less clumsy, there is a lot of weight from other jurisdictions and the appropriateness of juries.\u201d <\/p>\n
Al Williams is an Open Justice reporter for the New Zealand Herald, based in Christchurch. He has worked in daily and community titles in New Zealand and overseas for the last 16 years. Most recently he was editor of the Hauraki-Coromandel Post, based in Whangamat\u0101. He was previously deputy editor of the Cook Islands News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNot a single one of my friends or customers had anything good to say about it (jury service),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,110076,1559,115,154261,98,17515,2082,12517,101,111,43,139,89879,69,2847,36356,5204,16860,154259,2552,19993,154260,29387],"class_list":["post-273265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aucklander","tag-called","tag-calls","tag-deflated","tag-duty","tag-experience","tag-for","tag-jury","tag-left","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nico","tag-nz","tag-only","tag-pocket","tag-process","tag-reform","tag-rooyen","tag-service","tag-slams","tag-stoked","tag-woes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}