Maggie Gyllenhaal arrives for dinner with the rest of this year’s Cannes Film Festival Jury

Maggie Gyllenhaal arrives for dinner with the rest of this year’s Cannes Jury in a cream blouse and vintage shades on the eve of the 2021 Film Festival By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 19:08 BST, 5 July 2021 | Updated: 19:14 BST, 5 July 2021 Maggie Gyllenhaal is part of the Cannes Film Festival … Read more

Trump Organization’s Jeff McConney is first executive to be called to testify before grand jury

BREAKING: Manhattan DA calls Trump Organization senior vice president Jeff McConney as the first executive to testify to the grand jury in the case against the ex-president Jeff McConney, senior vice president and controller of the Trump Organisation, is first employee called to testify before grand jury, according to reports Manhattan prosecutors are believed to … Read more

Extinction Rebellion deliberately causing criminal damage at protests to get jury trials

Extinction Rebellion fanatics are deliberately causing at least £5,000 of criminal damage at protests to get jury trials as they believe they’ll stand a better chance of acquittal Extinction Rebellion deliberately causing criminal damage to get a jury trial Anyone who causes at least £5,000 of damage can be brought before a jury Protestors believe … Read more

Alicia Vikander, Jo Hartley and Naomi Ackie join BAFTA EE Rising Star Award jury

Alicia Vikander, Jo Hartley and Naomi Ackie join BAFTA EE Rising Star Award panel to select the 2021 shortlist By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 11:10 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 11:10 GMT, 20 January 2021 A trio of actresses have been added to the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award panel to select the … Read more

Cate Blanchett looks effortlessy chic as she continues jury duty at the 77th Venice Film Festival

Cate Blanchett looks effortlessy chic in a pinstripe blazer and leather trousers as she continues jury duty at the 77th Venice Film Festival By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 10:53 BST, 9 September 2020 | Updated: 10:53 BST, 9 September 2020 She is currently acting as the Jury President for the 77th annual Venice Film … Read more

Jury in £322m fraud trial against four Barclays executives discharged

The jury in the fraud trial against four Barclays executives has been discharged. John Varley, the bank’s chief executive from 2004 to 2011, and three of his senior staff have been on trial since January over claims they illegally sweetened the deal for Qatari investors. It was alleged that they funnelled £322m in secret payments … Read more

Do I think jury service is a financial disaster? Guilty!

Do I think jury service is a financial disaster? Guilty! The correspondence was as welcoming as a visit from the taxman By Lindsay Cook, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 2 May 2020 | Updated: 12:37 BST, 3 May 2020 The letter from HM Courts and Tribunals Service hit my doormat last month. I … Read more

Post Office acted as ‘judge, jury and executioner’

Post Office will only give £20,000 compensation to each postmaster wrongly accused of stealing due to IT glitch Post Office spent £120m of taxpayers’ cash on two-decade court fiasco  Some sub-postmasters were jailed, forced into bankruptcy or hounded   Inquiry was yesterday told the Post Office acted as ‘judge, jury and executioner’ By Tom Witherow Business … Read more

Jury awards $10.5 million to Kentucky grandmother who had a surgical sponge left in body

A Kentucky woman has been awarded $10.5 million after a sponge was left inside her following surgery, which led to complications and, ultimately, the amputation of ther left leg.  Carolyn Boerste was 54 years old when she underwent bypass surgery to improve blood flow to her legs at the University of Louisville Hospital in 2011.  … Read more

A new computer program promises to help screen jury candidates by analyzing their social media

A new computer program promises to screen jury candidates for bias by analyzing their social media accounts, assigning points for occupation, political affiliation, and even ethnicity An attorney has worked with a software company to develop a new program The program will help lawyers screen jurors by analyzing their social media The program will evaluate … Read more