Justice committee  I'll start with the last part. As far as I know, they no longer have any jury trials in South Africa, so that's out of consideration.

Justice committee  In Australia, by state, there are similar provisions that prohibit the discussion of the contents of deliberation, but it is state law that would govern those. There is a provision for jury trials on some Commonwealth matters, but those are very rare and would have their own sepa

Justice committee  I was referring specifically to their use of deliberation aids in the form of fact-based question trails, or decision trees for jurors to use to facilitate the decision-making process and not to any other aspect of juror support or counselling.

Justice committee  Those are two different things. The counselling service—and those statistics are some years out of date, but they're the most recent we had. The debriefing is a different process. That is simply a discussion, in open court usually, between the judge and/or someone else. Mostly

Justice committee  With respect to the programs in Australia, I'm not aware of any that are pretrial preventative kinds of training, such as we've just heard about. The services that are available through the jury administrators' offices are more akin to what Saskatchewan appears to have, where the

Justice committee  I think there are some judges who are going to be more comfortable with that kind of role and others who are not. It seems to me, in looking at the literature on this topic, that there really are two different models, some where judges have been present but have successfully turn

Justice committee  Before the trial is over or post trial, I think there is a difference. In other words, if somebody, post trial, consults the services that are available with mental health professionals for counselling, I think that information would be regarded as confidential. The distinction t

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  It varies considerably from state to state. Along the lines of what one of the former speakers said, we have recommended that the compensation be increased where it was clearly out of date or where people had to rely on employers as well. For example, in Sydney, one of the diff

Justice committee  Yes, absolutely. The last point I want to emphasize is that I think it is valuable for jurors to receive some debriefing, whether it is conducted by the trial presiding judge or whether it is conducted by a professional, particularly in cases that have been of long duration or c

Justice committee  Good afternoon, committee members and other attendees. It is a great pleasure to join you from here in Sydney, Australia, today. By way of background, I will introduce myself. I'm trained in law and experimental psychology. I have done jury research and evaluation of jury progra