Venue

Venue, the district from which a jury comes to try a question of fact; this, according to English law, should be the county where a crime is alleged to have been committed or a cause of action to have arisen, but modern rules permit civil cases to be set down wherever they may most conveniently be tried. In criminal cases, if a fair trial cannot be had in the county where the venue is laid, the High Court may change the place of trial. A similar power has often been conferred by statute on the Irish courts, when there has been reason to apprehend that a local jury would be liable to intimidation or undue influence.