... there is an official who is in charge of summonsing enough jurors to try the cases that will be heard. The official arranges names to be selected at random from the electoral register for the area that the court covers. This task is completed through a computer selection at a central office. The size of the jury is normally twelve but it is necessary to summons more than twelve jurors as some of the people will be disqualified, ineligible, or may be excused. The jury for a particular case is chosen in a random ballot by the clerk to the court who takes the first twelve names. Once the list of potential jurors is final, the names and addresses are given to both the prosecution and defence lawyers. There are many criticisms of both the selection processes. Firstly lay magistrates are regarded as "middle class, middle aged and middle minded". ...

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