The Criminal Procedure Rules 2020

Provision of information for jurors E+W

26.3.  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 1974(1).

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Textual Amendments

F1 Words in rule 26.3 Note omitted (2.10.2023) by virtue of The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/786), rule 1, Sch. para. 27

Commencement Information

I1 Rule 26.3 in force at 5.10.2020, see Preamble

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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).