Female jurors are ‘the harshest critics’

THE country’s leading criminal judge yesterday said female jurors were, in his experience, the “harshest critics” of female complainants in trials.

Mr Justice Paul Carney said he agreed with the finding in the Rape & Justice in Ireland report that gender quotas on rape juries (in favour of women) would not result in more convictions, and, if anything, would lead to more acquittals.

The report found that not a single guilty verdict was returned by female dominated juries in rape cases between 2000 and 2005.