Anyone with an interest in jury research is invited to a one-day conference about current issues in jury research.  This meeting will bring together jury practitioners (judges, jury commissioners, prosecutors, lawyers etc.) with researchers in several disciplines (psychology, criminology, architecture, forensic medicine, acoustic engineering etc.) to review the latest research findings about juries. This will be held at the Institute of Criminology, Sydney Law School.

Australia's leading jurist, High Court Justice Michael Kirby will be speaking, developing some of the issues he has raised before about communicating with juries: <http://www.hcourt.gov.au/speeches/kirbyj/kirbyj_genx.htm>.

Participants are invited to provide information about their current research interests in the area, and contribute papers to cross-disciplinary workshops organized around themes such as:

• jurors' understanding of expert evidence
• role of juries in civil cases, or personal accident cases
• improving the architecture of jury rooms and jury boxes
• providing new technologies for the jury
• admissibility of evidence and exclusion of evidence from juries
• juror preconceptions and misconceptions in sexual assault cases
• providing better training for, and clearer instructions to juries
• use of simulated juries and other research methods to study juries

The day will conclude with an architectural tour of jury spaces in inner Sydney