All new jury trials in Victoria to be suspended amid coronavirus crisis

Concern over large gathering of potential jurors for empanelment sees chief justice announce drastic measure

Courts across the state of Victoria in Australia will immediately suspend all future jury trials in a bid to contain the spread of Covid-19. The drastic measure will apply to the county and supreme courts.

Supreme court chief justice Anne Ferguson said all new jury trials would be suspended but that trials in which a jury had already been empanelled would continue.