Diversity and fairness in the jury system
Date: 13 June 2007
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)