Virus Prompts U.K. Judge to Interupt Biggest Bribery Trial
- Unaoil trial was approaching end after two months of hearings
- Lawyers group calls on government to pause jury trials
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A U.K. judge suspended the country’s biggest ongoing corruption trial in London for two weeks, the first such case to have been put on hold because of the coronavirus as an attorneys association asked for all jury trials to be halted.