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Juries Act 1981

Jury lists and panels

14AB: Inspection of protected particulars of jury list information excluded from panel

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"Seeing secret jury information for a court case"

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You can ask to see protected information about jurors. The Registrar must let you see this information if you are an eligible person. You must ask at the right time, which is not earlier than 7 days before the jurors are summoned. You are an eligible person if you are a lawyer acting for someone in a case. This also includes a lawyer acting for someone who is representing themselves in court. The Crown or a prosecutor in a criminal case can also ask to see this information. A Police employee can ask to see it if they are not personally involved in the case. If you get to see this information, you must use it to help your client. You must not show this information to someone who is not allowed to see it. You must keep it safe and make sure it is not copied by someone who is not allowed to see it. When the case is finished, you must return the information to the court. If you do not follow these rules, you might be in trouble with the court.

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14ABInspection of protected particulars of jury list information excluded from panel

  1. The Registrar must comply with a request to make a copy of protected particulars excluded from a panel under section 13(1A) available for inspection by an eligible person if the request is made—

  2. by that eligible person; and
    1. at a time not earlier than 7 days (being days on which the office of the court is open for business) before the commencement of the week for which the jurors on the panel are summoned to attend for jury service.

      1. In subsections (1) and (4), eligible person means—

      2. a barrister or solicitor acting for a party to proceedings that are due to be heard during the week for which the jurors on the panel are summoned to attend for jury service; or
        1. a barrister or solicitor appointed under section 14AC and acting in respect of a request under subsection (1) for a party to proceedings that are due to be heard during that week and who is a litigant in person; or
          1. the Crown or other prosecutor in criminal proceedings that are due to be heard during that week and that are a public prosecution; or
            1. a Police employee who is performing a function of the Police in respect of, but is not personally concerned in the facts of, or closely connected with a party or witness or prospective witness in, proceedings that are due to be heard during that week.

              1. A barrister or solicitor to whom a copy of protected particulars is made available under subsections (1) and (2)(a) or (b) must use the copy or any copies of it (the document) to help the party referred to in subsection (2)(a) or (b) to exercise rights of challenge under sections 23 to 26.

              2. However, an eligible person (despite subsection (3)),—

              3. must not show the document or disclose all or any of its contents to a person (in this subsection called a prohibited person) who is not a person of one of the following kinds:
                1. an eligible person:
                  1. a Judge, a Registrar, or a member of the court registry staff; and
                  2. must not leave the document in the possession of a prohibited person; and
                    1. must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the document and all or any of its contents are not copied by a prohibited person.

                      1. Every person who, in connection with proceedings that are due to be heard during the week for which the jurors on the panel are summoned to attend for jury service, receives, or makes a copy or copies of, a copy of protected particulars must (despite subsection (3)) return the copy or copies to the Registrar or a member of the court registry staff as soon as practicable after the case is opened or the defendant is given in charge.

                      2. However, subsection (5) does not apply to—

                      3. the Registrar or a member of the court registry staff; and
                        1. any other person if the court or a Judge, in the court’s or Judge’s discretion and on a written application for the purpose, orders that the other person need not return the copy or copies.

                          1. A breach of subsection (4) or (5) may be dealt with as contempt of court.

                          Notes
                          • Section 14AB: inserted, on , by section 18 of the Juries (Jury Service and Protection of Particulars of Jury List Information) Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 75).