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Juries are a very important part of the legal system in law.
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Juries are a very important part of the legal system in law. Juries have been used for over a thousand years. They are more than often used in the criminal cases, rather than in civil cases. In recent years juries are only used in a small number of cases. The jurors that are selected are typical people. These individuals are selected from the electoral register; this register holds names and addresses of all those people who are registered to vote in elections. The process of deciding who will be a jury member is called empanelling. The first phase of a juror selection involves the assortment of particular jurors. In a criminal trial involving a lawbreaking offence, 12 jurors and up to six alternate jurors may be chosen. When jurors are chosen a judge always will be present during jury selection to explaining the principles of law and at times...
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