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How fair are juries？ A study published this week offers timely support for a system that used to be regarded as oneot the bulwarks of an Englishman's civil liberties but has come under increasing attack of late. In England, UnlikeAmerica, juries no longer decide most civil trials. And now the government is pushing a bi[i through Parliament toabolish them in complex fraud cases.
In America the selection of jurors acceptable to both the prosecution and the defence sometimes takes longer thanthe trial itself. The process can involve exhaustive interviews about prospective jurors' beliefs and prejudices. But inBritain jurors are selected randomly from the 94 Crown Court catchment areas in England and Wales. Most accept thecall, and there is little chance to challenge a juror unless he actually knows the defendant. This has not vreventedassertions that English juries produce verdicts that are racially, biased because they do not accurately reflect society'sethnic mix.
A four-year study by a team at the university of Birmingham's law school, led by Cheryl Thomas, has shownthose charges to be largely a myth. In over 95％ of the 84 Crown Courts that were surveyed, ethnic minorities were notunder-represented among either those summoned for jury service or those actually serving as jurors. Members of ethnicminorities and whites were equally willing to do jury service and to support the jmT system.
The study punctursd another myth, too, that juries are largely made up of the retired and the unemployed.Women, young people and self-employed folk were all fully represented, the report's author~ concluded. And far fromshjury duty, fancy people in fancy jobs were found to be more conscientious than others, if anything. All in all,jury pools seem to reflect the local population quite closely in terms of race, gender,.age and background:
Yetthe perception of racial bias is not always unfounded. In London, where 45％ of ethnic minorities live and aquarter of all jurors serve, juries are always racially mixed. But in 74 of the 94 court-catchment areas, ethnic minorities,though sometimes concentrated in pockets, make up less than 10％ of the population overall. They therefore have littlechance of being selected for jury duty.