Diversity and Ethnic Fairness in the Jury System, Cheryl Thomas
with Nigel Balmer, Ministry of Justice, June 2007.
Jur-E Bulletin: “The study was completed in June of 2007 but is now available online. The study is 244 pages long and has a number of findings. However, two of the key points are that the juror summoning process in England and Wales is effective in providing a jury panel that is representative of the population of the jurisdiction in terms of ethnicity, age, gender, employment, income and religion. The other key point is that the study additionally conducted a series of mock jury trials to assess the effect of race on jury decision making. They did find that some individual jurors were more lenient towards members of their own race. However, the collective decision making of the other jurors effectively nullified any prejudicial impact of individual jurors. Therefore, the verdicts were racially unaffected.”
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