Ian Mulgrew: ‘Reasonable doubt’ should be scrapped
“It is an exacting standard of proof rarely encountered in everyday life, and there is no universally intelligible illustration of the concept.”
Another B.C. trial has been thrown out and a new one ordered because the judge failed to properly explain “reasonable doubt” to a jury — a perennial problem because juries misunderstand the term.
Maybe it is time for Canada, as the U.K. did last year, to abandon those words used to define the standard of criminal justice in British law for more than two centuries.
Another B.C. trial has been thrown out and a new one ordered because the judge failed to properly explain “reasonable doubt” to a jury — a perennial problem because juries misunderstand the term.
Maybe it is time for Canada, as the U.K. did last year, to abandon those words used to define the standard of criminal justice in British law for more than two centuries.
