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LONDON - The judge overseeing the inquest into the death of Princess Diana decided yesterday that the case would not be heard by a jury.
Britain's former top woman judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, who came out of retirement specially to oversee the sensitive inquiry, has decided instead to handle the case on her own.
Butler-Sloss made her decision after reviewing legal arguments put before her at the High Court in London last week.
At last week's preliminary hearing, she ruled that it would be inappropriate to allow royal officials to sit on a jury deciding how Diana and her lover Dodi al Fayed died in a 1997 Paris crash.
- REUTERS
