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Article 14 Challenges in civil cases

(1)

Where an action or issue therein is to be tried in the High Court with a jury, any challenge to the panel or to any jurors for cause shall be tried by the judge.

(2)

In the High Court the plaintiff and the defendant may respectively challenge not more than six jurors without cause.

(3)

If there is more than one plaintiff or defendant, the total number of challenges without cause by the plaintiffs on the one hand or by the defendants on the other shall not exceed six.

Notes on the whole Order

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Order: functions transferred from Lord Chancellor to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(1), Sch. 17 para. 45 (with arts. 15(6), 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)