AJ 014 Lecture 24: AJ_14_Crim_Law_122
18 Jun 2020
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Should the spouse of district judges and magistrates be exempted?: not entirely logical lol, the rationale of jury is a representation of the community but many of them are exempted. Duty to serve; exemption (e. g. insufficient knowledge of language; political beliefs or occupation not acceptable) The selected jury can choose not to be juror but the employers cannot dismiss him (protected) Pre-emtory challenges (5) and challenges with cause (s 29) The defendant can reject at most 5 jurors without any reason. After 5, the defendant can challenge the jurors with reasons to judge. Deliberation: trier of facts and summing up. Criminal: at least 5 for 7 jurors (7:2) , and not more than 2 dissents for 9 jurors (7:2 for long and complex trials) 3:4 needs a new jury civil: simple majority (s 24) The jury is a very small selected group in hong kong (middle-class) Too complex commercial crime, judging commercial people with commercial crime with jury of commercialists.
