Selection

• Who selects jurors?

  Central Summoning Bureau
• Who checks the list and what do they ask for?

  prosecution and defence and they ask for some to be vetted
• What kind of checks can it be done by?

  police or wider
• when are police checks done and what for? Include case

  routinely for disqualifications (Mason)
• When are wider background checks done?

  only in exceptional cases involving national security or terrorist cases with the AGs permission
• How many jurors does the trial start with?

  15
• How many are brough into court and by who?

  12 randomly by the clerk
• What can the position of a juror be done with by the prosecution and defence?

  challanged
• What are the 3 types?

  Challange to the Array

  Challange for Cause

  Prosecution Right to Stand by
• What does challange to the Array mean?

  whole jury are objected to as they are unrepresentative or biased
• What is a case for Challange to the Array?

  Romford where 9 out of 12 jurors lived on the same street
• What does Challange for Cause mean?

  individual juror is objected to with a valid reason eg: known to someone in the case
• What is a case for challange for Cause?

  Wilson & Sprason where the wife of a prison officer where Ds were held should no have been on the jury
• What is Prosecution Right to Stand by?

  prosecution stand by a potentiol juror by putting them at the back of the list so they will not be picked