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NSW Chief Justice Andrew Bell said the prevalence of social media posed a risk to the fact-finding process in jury trials.
‘I cannot imagine a need for the instruction unless there was an early disagreement in that room on the evidence and the standards,’ he said.
‘The list; it houses some very ugly racial stereotypes. And in its attempt to eliminate implicit bias, it’s actually really codifying racial stereotypes.’
