The Jury: Doubts Last More than a Century
The article notes that, despite the adoption in the Republic of Belarus in 1992, judicial and legal reform aimed at the introduction of trial by jury, democratic institution has not been introduced in our country. We consider some of the problematic issues related to the functioning of the jury in the Russian Federation and other countries, statistical data related to the activities of the jury. The author notes that the jury is not alien to the institution for the Republic of Belarus. In the past century on the territory of the modern Republic of Belarus - in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - population took an active part in the administration of justice. Given the constantly evolving democratic processes in most European countries and the world as a whole, the introduction of jury trials in the Republic of Belarus is necessary.