Does Canada use jury trials?
Jury trials used
Canada guarantees a constitutional right to jury trials for serious crimes and most indictable offences.
Canada is one of 7 countries classified “Jury trials used” for jury trials — 26% of the 27 with data.
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Jury trial
- Last checked
- 17 September 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 are a fundamental constitutional right for criminal cases and are widely used in civil matters.
- Ireland
- Jury trials used Jury trials are a standard feature of the criminal justice system and specific civil defamation cases.
- Norway
- Not used Jury trials were fully replaced by bench trials with lay judges in March 2021.
- United Kingdom
- Jury trials used Jury trials are a regular part of the justice system in the United Kingdom's legal jurisdictions.
- Sweden
- Limited use / mixed courts Jury trials are only available for specific offences against freedom of expression and press laws.
- Belgium
- Limited use / mixed courts Belgium uses juries only for specific serious crimes, political crimes, and press delicts via the Court of Assize.
Other laws in Canada
- Death Penalty
- Fully abolished
- Gun Laws
- Restrictive
- Military Conscription
- No conscription
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