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What must an individual be registered as before being selected to become a juror?

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Electoral register

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Who chooses potential jurors?

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JCSB

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What is the age range for potential jurors?

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18-70 on the day of jury service

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How long, since your 13th birthday should you have been ordinarily resident in the UK before you can serve on a jury?

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5 years

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How long will you be disqualified from jury service if you have served a custodial sentence of longer than 5 years?

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Life

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Give a reason, other than having criminal convictions, why a person would be disqualified from jury service

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Mental illness

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If you have a good enough reason, you can have jury service put off until a later date in the year. What is this called?

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Deferral

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Give an example why your jury service may be applicable for deferral?

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Exam dates

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When are excusals available?

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If you are in the armed forces situated abroad/already served in the last 2 years

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How many potential jurors are initially selected in the jury pool from which the final 12 are chosen?

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15

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What are the two types of vetting?

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Background checks

Individual

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What is the challenge to the array?

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A challenge, by either the defence of prosecution to the whole jury because it is believed that they have been chosen in an unrepresentative way or has acted improperly

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Challenge to the polls?

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A challenge by either the defence or prosecution, to an individual juror, for unknowns ie relationship with defendant, having a conviction

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What is the name of the right (only available to the prosecution) which allows for a juror stood by to be put to the end of the list of potential jurors?

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Prosecution ‘right to stand by’

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In which trials are jurors used?

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Civil
Criminal
Coroners

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What is the lowest majority of a majority verdict?

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10-2

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Interfering with jurors through threats and intimidation, in order to influence the outcome of a trial is known as what?

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Nobbling

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Jurors are used in what caught to determine the cause of death in unusual circumstances?

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Coroners

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What is jury equity?

Case example

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The name give to the idea that jurors can make decisions based on ideas of fairness even when the DONT strictly follow the law
Pointings case

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What happened in R v Young?

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Tried to contact dead through oujii board

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What happened in the Mirza case?

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Concerns over the discussion and direction of the verdict

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What reason has been given for not letting blind/death people act as jurors even when signers/interpreters could be used?

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Can’t have 13th person

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What would it be an offence for a juror to do under s.8 of the Contempt of Court Act?

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Discuss the case

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The independence of the jury was established in which case?

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Bushells
Refused to change verdict
No food or drink

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Which cases are tried by the jury?

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Crown court fit criminal trials on indictment
High court, queens bench division for certain types of cases
County court-similar cases to the queens bench division
Coroners court in some cases

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Juries in civil cases

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Dual role- decide whether the claimant and proven their case or not and then decide if the claimant has won the case the amount of damages that the defendant should pay to the claimant

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Juries in civil cases may only be used

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Defamation-in cases of libel and slander
False imprisonment
Malicious prosecution
Fraud
All cases involve character of reputation

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Uses in personal injury cases

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Trial by judge is rarely allowed
Personal injury cases should normally be tried by a judge sitting alone sue to assessing compensatory am ages, conventional scales of damages
Exceptional circumstances to be allowed
Singh v London Underground

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Coroners court

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Jury 7-11 used
Under the coroners and justice act 2009 a jury will only be used if:
There is a reason to suspect that the deceased died while in custody and that either:
The death was a violent or unnatural one
The cause of death is unknown

The death resulted from an act of omission of a police officer

The death was caused by a notifiable accident, poisoning or disease

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Disqualification

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Criminal convictions disqualify a person from jury service 
Disqualified permanently for 
Improsoned for life
Imprisoned for public protection
Serving an extended sentence 
5+ years in prison 
Disqualified for 10 years: 
Served a sentence of imprisonment 
Has a suspended sentence passed on them 
Community order 
Is on bail
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Excusal available

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Full time members of the forces

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Discretionary excusal

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Too ill

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Discharged

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Mental illness

Lack of capacity on day- judge lets you go, blind death

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Criminal justice act 2003

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Lawyers and police serve

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Selecting a jury

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Official responsible for summonsing jurors at each crown court
Those summonsed must notify the court any reason can not attend

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Vetting

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Prosecution and defence have right to see the list
Two types of vetting: routine police checks, wider background checks
Eliminates those who are disqualified
Political vetting is only permitted in cases using national security where part of the evidence is given on camera
Terrorist cases
Attorney generals permission

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Selection at court

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15 and court clerk selects 12

Dvd of procedure

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Challenge to the array

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Jury being unrepresentative or bias
R v ford- not multi racial
R v Fraser

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Challenge for cause

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Right to individual to sit on a jury
Disqualified
Knows defendants
R v Wilson and R v sprason

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Prosecution right to standby jurors

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Prosecution right to put a juror stood to the end of the queue of potential jurors
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