caa a22 4500 388111801 CHVBK 20180307125355.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0956618X00003410 doi S0956618X00003410 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0956618X00003410 Pattenden Rosemary Professor of Law, University of East Anglia The Exclusion of the Clergy from Criminal Trial Juries: An Historical Perspective [Elektronische Daten] [Rosemary Pattenden] Schedule 1 to the Juries Act 1974 provides that ‘[a] man in holy orders; a regular minister of any religious denomination [and] [a] vowed member of any religious order living in a monastery, convent or other religious community' is ineligible to serve on a criminal (and also a civil) jury. This has been the law since 1972. For the remainder of this century members of the clergy have been eligible, but not compellable, jurors. In practice they did not serve. The change effected in 1972 is a reversion to the position which probably prevailed in the Middle Ages. Aside from the occasional official report, the liability of religious functionaries to serve on juries in criminal trials has been rarely written about. The last time it happened was in 1882. The object of this article is to fill the lacuna by tracing the history of the clergy's ineligibility for jury service in criminal trials and the reasons for it. Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1999 Ecclesiastical Law Journal Cambridge University Press 5/24(1999-01), 151-163 0956-618X 5:24<151 1999 5 ELJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956618X00003410 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956618X00003410 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pattenden Rosemary Professor of Law, University of East Anglia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ecclesiastical Law Journal Cambridge University Press 5/24(1999-01), 151-163 0956-618X 5:24<151 1999 5 ELJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge