What is the difference between the jury of cituizens in a Crown Court and in a Magistrate's Court?

Question

I understand the difference between the two courts but not between the jury (citizens) in them! ?

Answer 1

The magistrates court is also known as the police court ie if you end up there you aint got a chance of winning.

Answer 2

In the UK Magistrates do not have Juries. Crown Courts do.

In a Magistrates court you usually have a panel of three magistrates (advised by the Clerk to the Court who acts as the "legal expert" for the Magistrates), alternatively you could find a single Magistrate who is normally a Judge (kind of "moon-lighting" in the "lower" court!) who can sit on his own due to his legal experience etc.

the Magistrates Court will deal with "less serious" cases and will "send" more serious cases to the Crown Court to be heard.

Answer 3

no jury in magistrates court only in crown court

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Offences may be summary, indictable, or triable either way based on political perceptions of the seriousness of the offence.

Summary offences stay in the Magistrates

Indictable offences are tried in the Crown Court

Triable either way usually start in the Magistrates but can be transferred and, if the defendant is found guilty, they may be sent to Crown Court for sentencing, where larger fines or periods of imprisonment can be imposed.

Most offences tried in the magistrates have fixed maximum penalties.  ÃƒÂ‚£5000 is usually the maximum fine.  

Stipendiary magistrates (now called district judges) sit alone or occasionally with a lay magistrate (justice of the peace),

Lay magistrates are volunteers who sit in panels of three with a clerk of the Court who is a lawyer and advises them on the precise interpretation of the law. Anyone may volunteer to become a JP but must complete training before they can hear cases.

The term police court is not used these days as the Police have no direct input, everything being done via the CPS.

The jury in  crown court (usually 12) have received a jury summons and must attend unless they can produce a compelling excuse.  They usually have no legal training and are given little instruction.

Answer 6

If you are in the UK, there are no jurors in the magistrate's court, only in the crown court

Answer 7

If your offence is not too serious then you end up in a Magistrates Court facing three 'pillars of society' who very often know nothing at all. Sometimes you get a stipendiary magistrate who does know the law but at least two out of the three will be there just for the power it gives them.

If it is serious then they send you to the Crown Court where you get a random jury if you plead not guilty.

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Answer 9

There is no jury in the Magistrates' Court, only a bench of 3 Magistrates.  Trials in the Crown Courts have a jury of 12.

Answer 10

there are no juries in the magistrates courts, only judges which are now called recorders if i remember correctly (could be wrong in that)

Answer 11

There is no jury in a Magistrate's Court, only in a Crown Court.

Answer 12

The magistrates court has no jury, just a panel of 3 lay magistrates (with no legal training, only the Clerk of the Court is a lawyer, explaining the law to the magistrates)

The Crown Court jury is 12 ordinary members of the public, except where the defendant pleads guilty, in which case a jury is not needed.