Does Canada use jury trials?
Limited use / mixed courts
Canada has constitutional right to jury trial for crimes punishable by 5+ years, with mandatory jury trials for most serious offences.
Canada is one of 16 countries classified “Limited use / mixed courts” for jury trials — 55% of the 29 with data.
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Jury trial
- Last checked
- 7 July 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- United States
- Jury trials used Jury trials available in criminal cases, requiring unanimous verdicts, with constitutional protections.
- Ireland
- Jury trials used Ireland uses jury trials for criminal cases in Circuit Court, Central Criminal Court and defamation cases.
- Norway
- Limited use / mixed courts Norway uses lay judges in lower courts and a jury of 10 in higher courts for serious cases.
- United Kingdom
- Limited use / mixed courts Jury trials replaced by Diplock courts for terrorism cases, though Diplock courts closed in 2007.
- Sweden
- Limited use / mixed courts Jury trials used only for offences against freedom of expression and press, with majority vote required.
- Belgium
- Limited use / mixed courts Belgium uses jury trials through the Court of Assize for serious criminal cases and political crimes.
Other laws in Canada
- Death Penalty
- Fully abolished
- Gun Laws
- Restrictive
- School Corporal Punishment
- Banned
- Military Conscription
- No conscription
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