Busy jurors spark warning by judge of trial-system collapse

The jury system will only survive if people realise it is a public duty, a judge warned yesterday when a $248 million theft trial collapsed because two jurors wanted time off.

Mr Justice Gareth Lugar-Mawson said he had made it clear to the jurors when they were sworn in on Monday that 'sitting on a jury is a civic duty'.

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