Section 47 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 allows a bench trial for indictable offences, but is rarely used, having been exercised only two times since its inception.
One of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry 2008–2009 in Turks and Caicos was that provisions be made for criminal trials without juries, following the precedent in England and Wales.
With bench trials, the judge plays the role of the jury as finder of fact in addition to making conclusions of law.
It is often less necessary to protect the record with objections, and sometimes evidence is accepted de bene or provisionally, subject to the possibility of being struck in the future.
One notable exception, from French law, is cour d'assises, where jurors are allotted and vote alongside professional judges.
Jury trials took place till 1973 when they were finally abolished by the 1973 Code of Criminal Procedure, recommended by the law commission of India in their 14th report in 1958.