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Part A: Describe the Jury Selection procedure in the English Legal System. Part B: How Representative is Trial by Jury? Consider alternatives and suggest improvements to selection Jessica Chesterman 10/11/05 The theory behind modern day trial by jury can be traced back some eight hundred years, to the sixty-three clauses of the Magna Carta (1215). One of these clauses reads; " No free man shall be arrested, or imprisoned, or deprived of his property, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor shall we go against him or send him against, unless by legal judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land." The Magna Carta gave English nobles and freemen the right to trial via a panel of their peers. In addition, the concept could also have stemmed from Normandy (pre 1066) when a panel of adjudicators was customary to decide land disputes. Many ancient cultures, such as the...

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