Canberra, Sept 16 (ANI): A Sydney barrister has warned that jurors using the social media are putting criminal trials at risk.
Peter Lowe, who has represented Pauline Hanson, said jurors were discussing cases on Facebook and looking up information on the internet.
"The issue of digital injustice has the potential to derail the very basis upon which justice is administered," the Herald Sun quoted Lowe, as saying.
Lowe said that young jurors found it hard to resist the pull of the search engine.
"There is currently a class of society who do not really know how to survive without this technology. To tell anyone from the millennial generation not to retrieve information available at their fingertips is a red rag to a bull," he said.
He, however, warned that information found online could be unreliable.
"There is no guarantee that the information used by an aberrant juror hasn't been placed on the net by the accused," he added.
In the United Kingdom, juror Joanne Fraill was jailed for eight months for contempt of court after using Facebook to contact the defendant in a drugs trial. (ANI)
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