The advantage and disadvantage of a jury system

The week we are going to be looking at the advantages and disadvantages of a jury system. A jury is a group of people,usually 12 ordinary people who have been selected to listen to the facts in a trial in a law court  and decided whether the case has been proved. The advantage of a jury system is that it ensures a fair trial. ESPECIALLY IN A CRIMINAL CASE.For instance: A person who is accused of an offence is tried by peers ---the general public rather than trained lawyers--Whom use their common sense to reach a verdict based solely on the evidence  they have heared in the case. However, recently many lawyers have argued that disadvantage of jury system is that in some cases, such as serious fraud, the facts of the case are generally too complect for ordinary person in the street to follow.

关于陪审团的优势与劣势

本周我们准备谈话陪审团的优势与劣势，所谓“陪审团”是指由法庭选出的12名普通民众，陪审团成员负责聆听法庭在审理过程涉及到的案件事实并决定案件事实是否已经通过证据得到证明。如此，陪审团的优势在于确保公正的审判。尤其在刑事审判中。举个例子，如果一个人被指控违法犯罪，他将交由他的同伴们，普通大众而不是训练有素的法官们，他们将运用生活常识来形成一个有罪或无罪的裁定，仅仅依据他们在法庭中聆听到的证据，最终确定那个人是否构成犯罪。然而，近来，一些法官们质疑陪审团具有很大的劣势，比如在一些重大的刑事诈骗案中，案件的事实对于那些街上被选出的普通民众来说一般过于太复杂而不能把握。