Juries
- Created by: Dominic Hayward
- Created on: 15-12-13 11:23
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- Juries
- Role
- Last 2 weeks
- Used in coroners court
- Must be beyond all reasonable doubt
- Used to decided verdict in Crown Court
- Might be asked to leave so judge can decide a legal point
- A juror can be held in contempt of court
- Foreman speaks verdict
- Bushells case (1670) allowed juries to be impartial to create a fair verdict.
- Qualification
- The juries act 1974 sets out eligibility. 3 criteria
- Registered on the electoral role
- Above 18-below 70
- Lived in the UK for 5 years above 13 years old
- The Criminal Justice Act 2003 sets out who is disqualified from jury service
- Served a prison sentence above 5 years- disqualified forever
- Have a life sentence
- Cant speak english
- Served a prison sentence (less than 5 years-in the last 10 years)-disqualified for 10 years
- Deaf
- If you have a mental health disorder (kept in hospital)
- If you're on bail
- The juries act 1974 sets out eligibility. 3 criteria
- Selection
- Deferrals
- This changes the date of a trial within the next 12 months
- Who can apply for a deferral:
- Pre-booked holidays
- Examinations
- Planned surgery
- Pregnant people
- Excusals
- This removes the name of the person off the register for 12 months
- You can apply for an excusal if:
- MP's
- Religious beliefs affect service
- Armed forces
- Over 65
- Jury duty in the last 2 years
- A jury official will call 15 jurors to each courtroom and the names are put on cards, and the first 12 cards are the jurors for that trial.
- Jury Vetting (checking)
- CRB check as convictions may have been missed
- Political vetting is to check for extremist political views. In cases of terrorism and must be authorised by attourney general
- Challenges
- For cause
- An individual can be removed with a reason. Eg if defendant knows juror. R v Sprason (1995) wife of a prison officer
- To the array
- Removes the entire jury as it is bias in a certain way E.g Romford where 10 jurors lived 20 doors down.
- Prosecutions right to stand by
- A juror can be removed for no reason. By attorney general and limited to terrorism or national security
- For cause
- Deferrals
- General info
- Summoned by the jury central summoning bureau (JCSB)
- Names selected from the electoral role
- Around 500,00 jurors are summoned each year
- Jurors find out from a letter in the post
- Selected at random-for fairness
- Role
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