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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1887.

Formation of Llate of

Common

and Special

Jurors.

(No. 24 of 1-82 K. 8. 4 & 17.)

List to be returned to the Registrar.

Formation of Aportal and

ISON s. 1, No. 24 o 1882 s. 7.)

Panel of Com- men Jurora.

Formation of panel of Special Jurors (No. 11 of 1864, 8. 17.)

Special jury in civil suits (No. II of 1864 s. 17.)

8. The Registrar shall, on or before the first day of February in each year, make a list in alphabetical order of all persons ascertained by him to be liable to serve as jurors, setting forth the name and surnames of each at full length, together with his profession, business, or occupation and place of abode, and shall cause a copy of such list to be posted for the term of one fortnight at the chief entrance to the Court. And any person may apply by notice in writing to the Registrar requiring that his name or the name of some other person may be respectively either added to or struck off from the said list, upon cause duly assigned in such notice; and the Registrar immediately after the expiration of the time for posting such list, shall forward the same and such notices as may be so served on him, to the Clerk of the Legislative Council. The Council may strike off from or add to such list, such name or names or any other name or names, as to the said Council may appear fit, and shall mark off, not less than twenty- four of the names contained in the list, and such names shall be formed into a separate list which shall be de- signated the Special Jurors List, and all other names contained in the said list shall be marked off in a separate list and be designated the Common Jurors List.

9. The said list when finally settled shall be returned to the Registrar by the Clerk of Council and called the Jurors List, and shall be brought into use on the first day of March next following and shall continue in force for one year from the said first day of March.

10. When the jury lists shall be completed and returned to the Registrar, he shall cause the names of the Special and Common Jurors to be written on separate cards of equal size and placed in separate boxes to be called the Special Jurors Ballot Box and the Common Jurors Ballot Box; which boxes shall be kept locked.

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11. Whenever it shall be requisite to summons - a mon jury, a Deputy Registrar shall, in the presence of the Registrar, open and draw from the Common Jurors Ballot Box eighteen names in civil cases, and thirty names in criminal cases to form a panel and the cards, with the names of those who shall have served in civil cases, and who shall have been been summoned in criminal cases so drawn, shall be locked up in a separate box until all the names in the ballot box shall be exhausted by subsequent panels, when all the names of the jurors on the Common Jurors List shall be returned to the Common Jurors Ballot Box, if required, for the purposes of the current year, and in such case the names shall again be redrawn in manner aforesaid. Provided always that whenever from any cause the jurors drawn cannot be served it shall be lawful for the Registrar to re-open the ballot box, and draw fresh names therefrom as often as may be necessary to secure the full number of thirty jurors at the Criminal Sessions.

12. Whenever it shall be necessary to summon a special jury, such jury shall be drawn in the manner herein before provided for obtaining a common jury with this exception that in civil cases the number to be drawn from the ballot box in the first instance shall be twenty-four, and in cri- minal cases twelve.

13. If either the plaintiff or the defendant in any suit or action, shall be desirous of having such suit or action tried by a special jury, it shall be lawful for the Court or a Judge thereof to order and appoint a special jury to be drawn by the Registrar in the manner herein before pro- vided;

and in such cases the parties shall appear before the Registrar on a day fixed by him, and a Deputy Regis- trar shall then in presence of the said Registrar and of the parties draw from the Special Jurors Ballot Box the requisite number of names. The Registrar shall then appoint a day for striking the said jury; on the day so appointed the parties shall attend and shall each alternately strike off one name till the said list is reduced to twelve; the names of the twelve struck off shall be replaced in the ballot box, and the remaining twelve shall be the special jury panel. Provided that the party applying for such special jury, and who shall have obtained a rule or order of the Court for that purpose, shall, when the cause is set down in the General Hearing List, deposit with the Registrar or other Officer of the Court, a sum sufficient to cover the expenses of the special jury, otherwise the rule or order of such Court or Judge to be of no effect.