... go beyond the electoral register to ensure fair representation for ethnic minorities as jurors. In this regard, L.J.Auld reaches a similar conclusion as was reached by 'The Runciman Commission', which was that in race sensitive cases, either the prosecution or the defence can insist that up to three jury members be from ethnic minoritys and that at least one of those should be from the same ethnic minoruity as the acccused or the victim. In order to examine whether the Government has come to a reasonable decision regarding Ch7s(29), I would like to take this opportunity to examine the reasons why L.J.Auld, The Runciman Commision, The Macpherson Report and all other recent studies have reached simialar conclusions. L.J.Auld has chosen to include the issue of race, and bias within juries in his report, as the statistical skew of young blacks2 who are not only in prison, but arrested in ...

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