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Describe jury trial within the English legal system.
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Frances Fish Describe jury trial within the English legal system In our English Legal system, only a small percentage of cases are tried by jury (less than 1 % of all criminal trials). They are used in the Crown Courts for criminal trials on indictment, High Court, Queen's Bench Division (but only for certain types of cases). County Courts (for similar cases to the Queen's Bench Division) and in some cases the Coroners Court. The most important is the Crown Court where juries decide whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty. This means that the jury is used in about 20,000 cases each year. The jury is a panel of lay people, usually 12 in number, who listen to both sides of a case and arrive at a decision on the facts which are presented to them. In the Juries Act 1974, jurors have to be selected at random from the...
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