Law Quiz ñ The Jury...

(1) How many jurors sit on a jury in a criminal trial?

(2) What is a majority verdict?

(3) What is the standard of proof necessary in a criminal trial? Name a case that substantiates this for an extra mark?  

(4) In which courts is a jury used?  

(5) What age do you need to be to serve on a jury?  

(6) Can you name two lay people that determine the guilt of a defendant?  

(7) Are Magistrates lay people?  

(8) Name the legally qualified person who advises Magistrates on the law and sentencing?  

(9) What is the maximum sentencing power of a magistrate for a single offence?  

(10) What is another name for a Stipendiary Magistrate?  

(11) In which case was it established that jurors were the only judges of fact?  

(12) Name 2 types of people who are disqualified from Jury Service?  

(13) Name 2 types of people who are ineligible from Jury Service?  

(14) Name 2 types of people who can be excused from Jury Service?  

(15) Name four types of cases that can be heard by a civil jury?  

(16) Fill in the missing words: In Ward v James (1966) Lord Denning said ìWhenever a man is on trial for XXXXXXX crime, or when in a civil case a mans honour or dignity is at stake, or when one or other party must be deliberately lying, then trial by jury has no XXXXX (two marks if both words given).  

(17) Name some alternatives to trial by jury (a mark for each of the four will be given)?  

(18) Approximately how many magistrates are there?  

(19) What does unanimous mean?  

(20) Name three arguments for trial by jury (a point for each one)?  

(21) Name three arguments against trial by jury (a point for each one)?  

Dr Peter Jepson. 

Subject Teachers note - The Answers are in the Law file.