Richard Edwards wrote: > >By the way, I don't know to what extent it is recognised in the US that >scarcely any civil cases in the UK are tried by juries, the only exceptions >of any significance being claims for defamation and false imprisonment. >Juries in civil cases were almost entirely abolished in the 1950s. In my >view this was an excellent innovation, and one which the US would do well >to >consider! May I ask why? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com