Published on: 13 June 2007
by Cheryl Thomas of the Centre for Empirical Legal Studies, University College London, with Nigel Balmer
This report examines whether the juror summoning process discriminates against black and minority ethnic (BME) groups, whether jurors serving at Crown Courts are representative of the local population in terms of ethnicity, age, gender, employment, income and religion, and whether a defendant's ethnicity affects the decision-making of racially-mixed juries.
- Full report [PDF 1.95mb, 244 pages]
- Report - Chapter 1 [PDF 0.36mb, 40 pages]
- Report - Chapter 2 [PDF 0.13mb, 22 pages]
- Report - Chapter 3 [PDF 0.52mb, 34 pages]
- Report - Chapter 4 [PDF 0.18mb, 38 pages]
- Report - Chapter 5 [PDF 0.38mb, 39 pages]
- Report - Chapter 6 [PDF 0.19mb, 34 pages]
- Report - Chapter 7 [PDF 0.10mb, 18 pages]
- Report - Appendices [PDF 0.37mb, 19 pages]