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Describe How The System Of Trial By Jury Operates A jury system consists of seven to twelve people, depending on the case and the court appearing in. Twelve jurors are used in Crown Court criminal cases for indictable offences. The Queens Bench Division of High Court where the cases involved are civil cases also have twelve jurors. These are cases involving libel and slander, fraud, malicious prosecution and false imprisonment. In civil cases at a County Court, eight jurors are present, although this is rare. Seven to eleven jurors are present at suspicious death cases at the Coroners Court. Specialist juries have been used within complex cases, usually fraud, as sometimes the cases can be complicated The selection process has been that since 1972, names were taken at random from the electoral role. The Juries Act, 1974 section 1, states that those who qualify for jury service are anyone aged between eighteen...

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