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Rule 26.3 Provision of information for jurorsI1

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

The court officer must arrange for each juror to receive—

(a)

by such means as the Lord Chancellor directs, general information about jury service and about a juror’s responsibilities;

(b)

written notice of the prohibitions against—

(i)

research by a juror into the case,

(ii)

disclosure by a juror of any such research to another juror during the trial,

(iii)

conduct by a juror which suggests that that juror intends to try the case otherwise than on the evidence, and

(iv)

disclosure by a juror of the deliberations of the jury; and

(c)

written warning that breach of those prohibitions is an offence, for which the penalty is imprisonment or a fine or both, and may be a contempt of court.

[Note. See sections 20A, 20B, 20C and 20D of the Juries Act 1974f1.]

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Rule 26.3 in force at 6.10.2025, see Preamble

Footnotes

f1

1974 c. 23; sections 20A, 20B, 20C and 20D were inserted by sections 71, 72, 73 and 74 respectively of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2).