DPP: White-collar criminal trials may need expert juries

COMPLEX financial crime trials may have to be heard before a panel of judges or expert juries, the Director of Public Prosecutions has said.

James Hamilton said more white-collar crime files were anticipated and it was therefore “an appropriate time” to consider whether the necessary tools were in place to handle them.

While a jury comprising of members of the general public would have no problem understanding very many white-collar crimes, some financial crimes were very sophisticated, he indicated.