A few months ago I posted about problems with the Newfoundland Jury List. Apparently the problems have been remedied:

Embarrassing problems with Newfoundland and Labrador's jury list — which caused a mistrial in May in the high-profile case of a physician accused of drug trafficking — have been resolved, the justice minister says.

Tom Osborne says the old list, which had not been updated in about eight years, has been replaced by a new system that will have real-time updates.

"We've done a dry run of the list, where we've pulled together a pool of potential jurors and selected a jury from that potential pool," Osborne said Wednesday.

"We've then analyzed the whole process and determined that it's working efficiently, it's working effectively, and that there are no glitches or bugs within the system."

The old list was based on data last updated in 1999, and collected by the motor vehicle registration system.

The new list is based on the provincial government's database for MCP, the medicare agency, and is cross-referenced with motor vehicle registration records and the provincial voters' list.

(Tom Osborne as  Minister of Justice? I don't know if you have to be a lawyer, but a University degree would be nice. Depite what people think, it is complicated stuff and I doubt that Osborne can't grasp the complexities when advised. His decisions (not that he makes any serious ones without the OK of Premier Danny Williams, who was quite an accomplished lawyer) can only be political.)