Evening Leader launches online courtroom project
February 21st, 2008
Posted by Laura Oliver in Multimedia, Newspapers, Online Journalism
North Wales Media title the Evening Leader is offering readers the opportunity to play judge and jury in an online court on its website.
The aim of the Your Justice project, which has been launched with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in Wrexham, is to raise awareness of the processes involved in the CPS.
Here’s how it works:
- Real lawyers present their cases on a fictional court case to the reader in a video
- Viewers are given legal advice and will then be asked to give their sentence
- Finally a real magistrate will appear and explain what their decision would be.
“This kind of working partnership shows great common sense by the CPS – they can use our website’s traffic to get their message across and we can use their content to add more value to our site,” Christian Dunn, digital editor for the Evening Leader, said in a press release about the project.
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