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?
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