s.8Composition of juries
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Section 8Part 0 —

Composition of juries

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Subject to subsections (2) and (3), every person whose name appears upon the last register of electors compiled under section 18 of the Elections Act (2021 Revision) and who has not attained the age of seventy years is liable to serve on juries in the court upon the trial of all issues directed to be tried by a jury.
The following persons shall be exempt from jury service —
the Governor;
the Deputy Governor;
a member of the Cayman Islands Parliament;
a judge or magistrate;
the spouse, civil partner, offspring, step-child or legally adopted child, of a person specified in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d);
a public officer employed in the Cabinet Office;
an attorney-at-law actively engaged in litigation practice;
a person registered to practise medicine under the Health Practice Act (2021 Revision);
an officer of a court of competent jurisdiction;
a constable;
a person appointed as a prison officer under the Prisons Act (2021 Revision); and
a person who is mentally disordered as defined in the Mental Health Act (2021 Revision).
Any person who —
has been charged for an offence and is currently before any court of the Islands pending trial for that offence; or
has been convicted before any court of the Islands of an offence for which that person was sentenced to a term of imprisonment and who has not received a free pardon in respect of that offence,
shall be disqualified from jury service.
In subsection (2)(f) —
“public officer” has the meaning assigned to that expression in the Constitution set out in Schedule 2 to the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009 [U.K.S.I. 2009 No. 1379].

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public officer

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