Deaf jurors
Fri Mar 23 2018Australian research has proven that "deaf people have the ability to understand complex legal discourse in a courtroom setting using sign language interpretation and, therefore, are able to discharge the functions of juror", according to the award-winning article Justice is blind as long as it isn’t deaf : excluding deaf people from jury duty – an Australian human rights breach, Australian Human Rights Journal, Volume 23(3) p 332-350 by David Spencer, Mehera San Roque, Jemima Napier and Sandra Hale. The article is available here.
There is a fundraising initiative by Deaf Australia Inc to fight for the rights of Deaf and people with disability to serve as jurors, see http://juryrightsforall.org.au/.